[SSLy]

And converse, on Linux it's so hard to get every shitty tool to put files in XDG dirs, not spew them all over ~.

[oneshtein]

A maintainer can patch the package to store it configuration files into a XDG directory, then upstream the patch. If none of maintainers did this, then problem is deeper.

[SSLy]

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XDG_Base_Directory#Hardcode... upstreams quite too often reject patches or let them languish