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lotuspsychjegood morning02:34
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Square2What is the most obvious location for application configuration that you want in your backup? Both for "per user" and "system wide" installs?09:43
tarzeauSquare2: dot files in home, and /etc. (cron jobs /var/spool) (wrote this 25 years ago https://github.com/alexmyczko/ibackup)11:12
Square2tarzeau, The problem as I see it is that home is it that it gets cluttered by applications. Some use .some_dir to store both caches, application data and install files.11:15
Square2Also /usr/local seems like a popular place to store configuration 11:15
tarzeauSquare2: that problem is known only in very little amount of programs. 11:20
tarzeauSquare2: /usr/local/etc ? and /opt/whatever/etc? non default, you'd know when youre the admin, as you'd be installing software putting configuration there11:20
tarzeauthere's always software not following good manners, same with road users11:21
Square2tarzeau, thanks for your insight. Appreciated. 11:58
JanCyou can use whitelists or blacklists, I suppose13:31
JanCalso note that when you have an application that uses ~/.some_dir you should check if it doesn't also support modern separated directories13:34
JanCsome applications will use the old directories when they exist for backwards compatibility...13:34
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