[kitsunesoba]

It's frustrating enough to make a person seriously consider maintaining forks of all the FOSS things they use to fix this one bit of misbehavior.

[spott]

Start with pythons “projectdirs”, which refuses to allow mac systems to use XDG or at least have that option.

https://github.com/platformdirs/platformdirs/issues/4

[petesergeant]

Do any of the Linux distros do this? Strikes me as the kind of thing Debian would do for everything in apt

[gjvc]

Do you have any examples of Debian doing this?

[petesergeant]

Sure. In software of mine distributed by Debian, there's usually a "debian/patches" directory, that I didn't add, that's changes the Debian project wanted to make to the system. I'm sure there's a formal name for that system. Most Debian packages seem to have one.