volatile config data and XDG Base Directory spec

Richard Hartmann richih.mailinglist at gmail.com
Wed Feb 19 09:16:24 PST 2014


On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 3:17 PM, Kevin Krammer <krammer at kde.org> wrote:
> [1] which would have the added benefit of being something that can be passed
> to a user local software build, e.g. configure --prefix $XDG_INSTALL_HOME

Just to play devil's advocate: If that's unset, bad things can happen.
Yes, whatever is parsing --prefix should guard against it, but still.


Richard


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