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This proposal calls for developers to adopt a standard within their projects, as opposed to addressing where configuration files for installed software should l
by mcint 3y ago
This proposal calls for developers to adopt a standard within their projects, as opposed to addressing where configuration files for installed software should live within a user's home directory.
https://dotmeta.org https://dotmeta.org, note projects
This site exists to advocate that software libraries look for their config files in .meta directories of projects.
This is avoid making a mess in the root directory of projects, as this tweet laments.
https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-..., note users
## Basics
The XDG Base Directory Specification is based on the following concepts:
- There is a single base directory relative to which user-specific data files should be written. This directory is defined by the environment variable $XDG_DATA_HOME.