13 Mar
2010
13 Mar
'10
12:21 p.m.
On 12 March 2010 07:24, Faré fahree@gmail.com wrote:
Well, apart from ~/.local/share/ being a "standard" XDG-recommended place to store such things, consider that
Erm, my reading suggests otherwise.
From:
http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/latest/ar01s03.html
"$XDG_DATA_HOME defines the base directory relative to which user specific data files should be stored. If $XDG_DATA_HOME is either not set or empty, a default equal to $HOME/.local/share should be used."
IMO, if the idea is to follow XDG (I don't care strongly either way), then let's follow it properly and use the appropriate environment variables instead of canonicalizing on the defaults.
Cheers,
-- Nikodemus