[basedir-spec] What exactly is $XDG_DATA_HOME for ?

[Fred Drake]

On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 2:08 PM, David Faure <dfaure at trolltech.com> wrote:
> User-specific data can also be generated by the program at runtime,
> it doesn't have to come from install time.

I've heard $XDG_DATA_HOME described as parallel to /usr/share/ a
couple of times; would it be more reasonable to describe it as both
/usr/share/ and /var/ combined?


 -Fred

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