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by subsection1h 1177 days ago
> Now let's bikeshed and scatter them randomly across several places

"Now"? The initial draft of the XDG Base Directory Specification was published in 2002.

I don't my backups to include gigabytes of worthless cache files. I want them isolated somewhere, anywhere, so they can be easily excluded in my backup scripts.