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Re:The creeping scourge of tooling config files in project r... by tomc1985 on Wednesday August 05, 2020 @11:04PM (#24067767)
> Same reason why we have a ~/.config folder now instead of just shoving everything into ~/ like we used to.

Who/what is the "we" here? Last I checked my homefolder was still chock full of dotfiles in-use.

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Re:The creeping scourge of tooling config files in project r... by hedora on Thursday August 06, 2020 @12:25AM (#24068113)
Now, half of them are in ~/.config This is better because it means you have to look in more places.

Similarly, things also like to hide state in ~/.cache

If they didn’t then rm -rf .appname would restore it to default settings, and we can’t have that.

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Re:The creeping scourge of tooling config files in project r... by bmn__ on Thursday August 06, 2020 @04:53AM (#24069230)
I notice you chose to exclusively point out the negative aspects.
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Re:The creeping scourge of tooling config files in project r... by tomc1985 on Friday August 07, 2020 @12:24PM (#24083662)
https://xkcd.com/927/
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