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Re:Dotfile madness by Aeolun on Saturday February 02, 2019 @08:38PM (#19067214)
I have great difficulty understanding why the snap developers think the excuse “it’s hard to change!” flies.

If it’s hard to change, you should’ve either fixed your architecture from the start, or thought a bit harder about the implications of magically creating a new directory in $HOME.

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Re:Dotfile madness by krferriter on Sunday February 03, 2019 @12:05AM (#19067979)
It shouldn't be hard to change unless the string "/snap" is hardcoded all over the codebase. There should be a function like "get_app_dir" or "get_install_dir" or some other config string lookup that doesn't use a static string.
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Re:Dotfile madness by OJFord on Sunday February 03, 2019 @08:11AM (#19069388)
They probably mean it's hard to migrate existing users and not break.
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