Re: pkgsrc littering the home directory

["Julio M. Merino Vidal" <jmerino%ac.upc.edu@localhost>]

On Feb 4, 2008, at 11:41 AM, Tobias Nygren wrote:

> Hello,
>
> As as pure side-effect of compiling packages, my user got the  
> following
> directories created for it in it's home directory:
>
> .config, .gconf, .gconfd, .ghc, .gstreamer-0.10,
> .gstreamer-0.8, .kde, .qt, .wapi
>
> I propose setting MAKE_ENV+=HOME=${WRKDIR:Q}/.home by default in  
> pkgsrc.
> I'd also like to warn if this directory is nonempty when PKG_DEVELOPER
> is set. Can anyone see a reason this could be bad? I realise that  
> there
> may still be packages that use getpwuid(getuid)->pw_dir or similar.
> Perhaps they can be fixed differently.

I like this idea.  Dunno what side-effects it might have, though, but  
it may be worth to try it and see.