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by oefrha 2326 days ago
> I'm the kind of guy who goes through $HOME every once in a while and start looking for workarounds or filing bugs requesting XDG Base Directory spec support.

I used to be that guy. Now I’m not. Re workarounds: usually that means env vars, but all that crap in env is copied to the execution environment of every single process, which is pretty awful. Re bug reports: usually only a few “that guy”s care at all, sometimes there’s endless debate about whether things go into XDG_DATA_HOME or XDG_CACHE_HOME, the occasional accepted PR requires so much effort I might as well just try to forget about all the garbage sitting in the $HOME.