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Re:Dotfile madness by chmln on Saturday February 02, 2019 @07:13PM (#19066811)
> you have to put so many gitignore exceptions and I'm not even talking about the gigs of data all the chromium derivatives put into that folder

Yeah but chrome devs half-assing the trivial xdg spec doesn't mean that xdg sucks - its just not implemented properly.

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Re:Dotfile madness by Something1234 on Sunday February 03, 2019 @12:38AM (#19068066)
I think xdg has an issue of being obtuse when I googled it a while ago, it was very confusing, and I didn't find any real definitions. However I didn't look that hard.
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Re:Dotfile madness by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Sunday February 03, 2019 @01:39AM (#19068185)
Freedesktop standards are nothing if not overly complicated and confusing.
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Re:Dotfile madness by wilmoore on Saturday February 09, 2019 @02:59PM (#19124249)
I agree, you didn't look very hard.
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