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Re:Dotfile madness by Epskampie on Saturday February 02, 2019 @11:33AM (#19063856)
In a way a users settings are ‘personal files’, so it can be argued they go in home.
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Re:Dotfile madness by lytedev on Saturday February 02, 2019 @11:38AM (#19063898)
Except isn't there a specific directory for such things now in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME? Or is this not standard at all? Either way, $HOME/.config makes perfect sense to me!
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Re:Dotfile madness by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Saturday February 02, 2019 @01:24PM (#19064649)
We didn't always have the XDG standards, they were bolted on later and consequently a lot of devs ignore them.
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