Should hidden files and directories be treated differently by the home plug

[Neil McPhail]

On 06/07/16 18:13, Mark Shuttleworth wrote:
> In principle I think the way to do this is to have the snap declare some
> specific .files that it wants to see, as parameters on the interface.
> This would trigger a one-time review, but assuming the request is sane,
> those would then be granted.
>
> The silversearcher example, though, is more interesting because it's
> explicitly wanting to search dotfiles that belong to other apps.
>
> Mark
>
If a solution could be found for silversearcher, it may become a class 
solution for useful snaps of "git" and other build tools. I'm sure we 
need a more generic solution for dotfiles than exclusion+whitelisting.

NMP