volatile config data and XDG Base Directory spec

Richard Hartmann richih.mailinglist at gmail.com
Wed Feb 19 09:20:51 PST 2014


On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 4:29 PM, Simon McVittie
<simon.mcvittie at collabora.co.uk> wrote:
> People who put their ~/.config in a VCS are going to hate that change,
> and so are people who use deletion of ~/.config as a "factory reset"
> (but don't want to lose, e.g., their Tomboy notes).

We gave up long ago and and resorted to specifying files within
~/.config/$0 as $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is already littered with non-config
bits and pieces; for example state as part of config ;)


Richard


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