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Re:Rob Pike: the origin of dotfiles by jeltz on Friday August 03, 2012 @03:53AM (#4333036)
I would have preferred if it did not rely on environment variables since almost nobody sets them which means there will be untested code in applications implementing the specification.
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Re:Rob Pike: the origin of dotfiles by takluyver on Friday August 03, 2012 @05:13AM (#4333215)
Where possible, applications should rely on tested libraries to implement the specification, like PyXDG.
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