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Re:Dotfile madness by saagarjha on Saturday February 02, 2019 @11:32AM (#19063848)
It’s a convenient place to store user data that works across platforms.
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Re:Dotfile madness by reaperducer on Saturday February 02, 2019 @11:55AM (#19064019)
It’s a LAZY place to store user data that works across platforms.

FTFY.

If you don’t want to follow the spec, keep your program’s data in your program’s directory. If another program needs the data it can follow the $PATH, or ask the user.

Even better, ask the user at first run. You know, when asking people to accept some Byzantine EULA, license, and permission to track their grandmother.

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Re:Dotfile madness by __david__ on Saturday February 02, 2019 @02:42PM (#19065180)
Your program is installed in /usr/bin—you can't write to that directory (nor should you).
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