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Don't hide it!

Posted Apr 13, 2004 14:17 UTC (Tue) by mwilck (guest, #1966)
In reply to: /usr/local/ ? by rfunk
Parent article: The User-Accessible Filesystem Hierarchy Standard

And why stick this stuff in hidden directories?

Yes that is real nonsense. There are widely-used file managers out there that make it impossible to list hidden files, and there are file manager-writers out there who consider that a feature.

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