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by PhilipRoman 613 days ago
The reasoning behind historical convention of kinds-of-data/app in Unix is so you can partition the disk easily and apply policies based on type (like backup /etc, tmpfs on /tmp, mount /usr read-only)

Although I'll never forgive XDG for renaming etc to config and var to state. Would be so convenient to set PREFIX=~/.local for some things