Re:The creeping scourge of tooling config files in project r...
by sergeykish on Wednesday August 05, 2020 @11:29PM
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There is no One True Place, would you like drawers with my preferences and no way to override?
The list of configuration files/directories is known. Why can't those who bother present them as they desire? Instead of forcing their will on others.
There reason for ~/.config is separation from data and cache. And the reason behind XDG Base Directory Specification is a generic way to run application with another config `XDG_DATA_HOME=foo bar`.
The list of configuration files/directories is known. Why can't those who bother present them as they desire? Instead of forcing their will on others.
There reason for ~/.config is separation from data and cache. And the reason behind XDG Base Directory Specification is a generic way to run application with another config `XDG_DATA_HOME=foo bar`.