compacting the notmuch database through systemd

[Tomi Ollila]

On Sun, Dec 08 2019, David Bremner wrote:

> 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.

This has been tried quite a few times (also) in notmuch mailing list so
far; search 'config and notmuch and xdg' in my active mailstorage shows:

first mentioned 2011-06-24
first RFC suggestion: 2011-12-21
so far last WIP patch (from bremner): 2017-12-30

"simplest" would be just get rid of the config file and use only database...

Tomi