I have a deep-seated distrust of global stuff. In C, obviously. But also for things like git configs, which may differ substantially for different directories (one for each project). I cannot imagine trying to control such things in a single place. Seems intensely ugly.

On Sun, Apr 28, 2019 at 6:47 PM Thoma Paulsen <thomas.paulsen@firemail.de> wrote:

Von: Jon Forrest <nobozo@gmail.com>

> One of the things I think Windows did right was to have one
> place where all configuration information is kept. Sure,
> you can argue about the implementation details, but Windows
> doesn't have configuration files all over the place.
>
in theories - yes, in real there are a lot of configuration files all over the place.