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There complexity of storing config files in a user's config directory?
by pbhjpbhj 3y ago
There complexity of storing config files in a user's config directory?
- larschdk 3y agoThere is complexity in making the change and diverging on different platforms. ~/.myapprc was there first and it was XDG that came along and wanted everything to change.
- tsimionescu 3y agoThe user's config directory, on Unix, has long been $HOME.
- kortex 3y agoThis is just appeal to tradition. And time and experience has shown that it is a subpar solution, especially when $HOME/.myapprc is effectively hardcoded, so you can't even reconfigure it, you gotta use links.
- tsimionescu 3y agoMy point was that apps that put dot files in $HOME are following a convention. You can argue that XDG is better or that it's worse, but you can't accuse the app developers of ignoring conventions in general. It's not like OpenSSH creates its own dirs in / or something.