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Re:Show HN: TagSpaces – An open source personal data manager by pjmlp on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @05:31AM (#12682770)
> ~/.config, which exists for this very reason.

On GNU/Linux systems maybe, it isn't part of POSIX.

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Re:Show HN: TagSpaces – An open source personal data manager by qznc on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @05:39AM (#12682791)
It does not conflict with POSIX though. Why not do it on BSD as well?
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Re:Show HN: TagSpaces – An open source personal data manager by pjmlp on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @06:09AM (#12682895)
There are more UNIX systems out there.

How will you enforce something like that to all UNIX eco-system?

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Re:Show HN: TagSpaces – An open source personal data manager by scrollaway on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @07:36AM (#12683360)
Convention. The concept of configuration in dotfiles is no more posix than the concept of configuration in ~/.config.
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Re:Show HN: TagSpaces – An open source personal data manager by pjmlp on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @08:02AM (#12683530)
The point was enforcing UNIX applications to use ~/.config.
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