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Re:Rip – Rust crate to resolve and install Python packages by d-k-bo on Friday October 20, 2023 @04:25AM (#37953580)
> The above invocation will automatically download the latest version of pixi, extract it, and move the pixi binary to ~/.pixi/bin. If this directory does not already exist, the script will create it.

Please don't pollute my home directory. Follow the XDG base directory specification [1].

[1]: https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-...

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Re:Rip – Rust crate to resolve and install Python packages by sideeffffect on Friday October 20, 2023 @05:43AM (#37954069)
There are even libraries for that!

https://github.com/dirs-dev/directories-rs

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