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It looks like Armin Ronacher answered this question in the issues when he was maintainer (https://github.com/astral-sh/rye/issues/316#issuecomment-158...):

> While I understand the desire for XDG, I personally hate it because it encourages common files to be in different locations on different operating system, driving up the complexity for everybody. Once you go down that path, every single documentation has to explain different paths for different platforms and configurations, how different configs can affect where stuff is. It gets gnarly quickly.

> I do not believe the benefits outweigh the downsides and XDG is generally not enough of a standard that it prevents people from putting stuff into the home folder. If you want to relocate `rye` there, you can already do by exporting `RYE_HOME`.