I saw no discussion or resistance to the idea of that folder being created for the user. In fact I saw Roman asking something this:
I believe yet all have agreed to ~/.local/lib/pd/extra as the default install path (and most recent Deken uses it).
There was some concerns about creating directories without asking. Now, do those concerns still apply with above default install path? It seems pretty normal that applications do stuff there. Is anyone still against auto-creating?
Roman
I missed another important message in response to this from IOhannes
it seems indeed that the main obstacle for automatic directory creation has gone with this new default user-specific search path. if there is some consensus, i will happily re-enable the directory creation. (but it seems that everybody has gone into sleep mode again, and will only awake after the next release)
gfmadsr IOhannes
So, the enabling of directory creation seems to be something desirable after all.
Maybe it's time for "waking up" to the discussion again...
cheers