On Thursday 09 October 2025 at 22:40:44, Steve Litt wrote:

> Antony Stone said on Thu, 9 Oct 2025 22:08:19 +0200
>
> > I keep all my data under /home/antony
>
> That's my point. Your data is commingled with your config and your
> disk-consuming cache files. One workaround would be for all your data
> to be in or under /home/antony/data.

I did not mean that every data file I have is in the directory named
/home/antony. There are in fact very few files there - nearly everything is in
subdirectories (I'm a generally well-organised person) and I can almost always
find what I want when I need it, and it's not mixed up with data about
something else.

So long as you can extend your idea of /home/antony/data to /home/antony/taxes
and /home/antony/household and /home/antony/music etc., then I quite agree
with you.

My (applications') config files are in directories like .arbtt, .blender, .cpan,
.dropbox, .gEDA, .mplayer etc. I don't put my own files in there, and those
applications don't mess with my other directories.

I can't recall the last time I installed anything and it put a binary into my
home directory tree.


Antony.

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