Could you send some evidence
No i can't. All i know is that there was some uproar about this a week ago.
MonkderDritte
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Optimizing your system for space is usually wasted effort in Linux, this is not Windows. To get what uses all the space, there's plenty of storage analyzing tools like Baobab, qdirstat, etc.
- It’s an attempt to replace cross site tracking methods, which are terrible
Doesn't work with total cookie protection anyway.
You can of course not give users a choice. And a lot of applications do their own thing, having their own variables like GOPATH or a cli option like --config or some way to do that in a config file like Idea IDEs. But implementing XDG from start is miles simpler for all parties, it's good practice to have your paths and variables somewhat organized in code anyway.
In this case it would be XDG_CONFIG_HOME=/home/config. That simple.
This standard makes your software's paths user-configurable, giving users a choice.
And i wish there was a separate XDG_LOG_HOME or $HOME/.local/log, with logrotate preconfigured to look there.
What language? Python has PyXDG.
In shell it's simply
XDG_DATA_HOME="${XDG_DATA_HOME:-"$HOME"/.local/share}"
XDG_CONFIG_HOME="${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-"$HOME"/.config}"
etc.
Where did i read this... basically, the .file being hidden being a bug in the early unix filesystem, which got misused to hide configuration files.
Offenders despite XDG-variables set and with no workaround:
- .android: hardcoded in adb and i guess something in mtp too
- .pki: some tool/library Firefox and Chromium sometimes use.
- .steam: yes, that
Yeah, why would you do sports in death valley?
Lol no, that statement is way too comprehensible for Trump.
There's the difference between individual knowledge (company training) and code licenses though.