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Re:Dotfile madness by teknopaul on Saturday February 02, 2019 @07:13PM (#19066816)
Most people like to separatly store data and executables for good reasons.
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Re:Dotfile madness by gesman on Saturday February 02, 2019 @11:05PM (#19067764)
\Programs\VendorX\ProgramY\data

\Programs\VendorX\ProgramY\code

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Re:Dotfile madness by WorldMaker on Monday February 04, 2019 @02:27PM (#19079765)
The problem there is "how lazy is VendorX"? With \Program Files\ Microsoft has a ton of top level ACLs to lock down access to the directories that everything just inherits by default. How much work does the OS need to do to allow something like "folders named `data` under \Programs\ have ACLs XData and `code` have ACLs YCode"? Does it need to watch for silly mistakes like Devs that localize `code` (`Código` for instance) or misspell it (`ocde` or `coode`)?
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