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It usually doesn't, and it's mostly a good standards recommendation that even the most GPL of GPL codebases doesn't always follow (looking at you, emacs).
by tetris11 3y ago
It usually doesn't, and it's mostly a good standards recommendation that even the most GPL of GPL codebases doesn't always follow (looking at you, emacs).
- chimprich 3y agoEmacs has respected $XDG_CONFIG_HOME for a while now. There are worse offenders (e.g. not likely to see the end of .mozilla any time soon).
- j16sdiz 3y agoGNU emacs was created at 1984. XDG Base Directory spec was started around 2003..
- Zambyte 3y agoAlso Emacs will reapect files being placed in XDG directories, it just doesn't put them there...