compacting the notmuch database through systemd

David Bremner david at tethera.net
Sun Dec 8 08:56:52 PST 2019


Jorge P. de Morais Neto <jorge+list at disroot.org> writes:

> Em [2019-12-06 sex 14:41:22-0500], Daniel Kahn Gillmor escreveu:
>
>> As for the variations, i'm kind of of a mind that people who deviate
>> from the defaults should need to maintain their own deviance explicitly,
>> rather than trying to accomodate a non-default path in shipped config
>> files.  For example, "systemctl --user edit notmuch-compact.timer" helps
>> you drop in the appropriate override/modification.
>
> But ~/.config is the XDG standard, so maybe it deserves special
> consideration.
>

It would make more sense to have notmuch actually support
XDG_CONFIG_DIR. Alas, config changes seems to be hard / not rewarding.


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