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Comment by selfhoster11

4 years ago

GoboLinux does exactly that: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GoboLinux

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0des  4 years ago

Wow, thanks for the reply, nice find! I did some poking around on my Linux system and even re-arranging the home folder was a task of its own because the system kept trying to replace folders in their original places. I will do some digging in to Gobo and see how they're handling this. Thanks again for pointing this out.

  • dotancohen  4 years ago 

      > the system kept trying to replace folders in their original places.

    This is the file that you want:

      $ cat ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs 
  XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/"
  XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR="$HOME/Downloads"
  XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR="$HOME/"
  XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR="$HOME/"
  XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR="$HOME/"
  XDG_MUSIC_DIR="$HOME/"
  XDG_PICTURES_DIR="$HOME/"
  XDG_VIDEOS_DIR="$HOME/"

  • lostlogin  4 years ago

    You’re clearly a more capable user than me, but even so, take care. The time I accidentally moved /etc has scarred me for life.

gavinray  4 years ago

How do you deal with lack of being able to just point to "/usr/lib/include" or other things when saying "here's my directory of shared libs"?

This is definitely interesting though, and an improvement I would say

  • JonathonW  4 years ago

    GoboLinux symlinks everything into an FHS-ish structure under /System/Index/ so you still have a single place where binaries/libraries/includes/etc. live. (There are also symlinks from /usr/lib, /usr/bin, and others into /System/Index/ for compatibility with programs where those might be hardcoded.)