Nepomuk/Strigi filled my disk

[Chris Jones]

Hi,

> (I'm sporadically fighting a "tilting at windmills" battle to get 
> additional user directories analogous to ~ to separately store:
>    * real user data
>    * user configuration data
>    * user related temp files
>    * hmm, can't think what to call it, but things like indexes of my 
> email--stuff that is needed in one particular system to make something 
> work, but is (1) probably not usable in another system (do kmail 
> indexes work in, for example, evolution?), (2) is easily 
> reconstructable, and thus is (3) at least imho, not worth backing up
> )

Good luck, you need it ....

Frankly, I think you should just give up trying to change configuration 
data ending up in ~/ - It is essentially a (long time) convention that 
all applications write their config data to ~/.XYZ files or directories, 
and if you where to change this you would have to get *all* applications 
to change - There isn't a single switch you can flip to do it for every 
application out there ... Sorry, but I just don't see this ever happening.

Why not simply place you "real user data" in some shared directory, 
which you then symlink/mount as ~/RealUserData for each user, keeping ~/ 
distinct to each system ?

On the point of backups, just exclude anything that matches ~/.* - Job 
done. Thats what I do and it works just fine.

cheers Chris
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