XDG base directories and trash outside $HOME device

Maurício Antunes mauricio.antunes at gmail.com
Tue Jun 24 18:06:36 PDT 2014


> I'd actually prefer to take this chance to update the XDG basedir
> specification to mandate that $HOME and each of the $XDG_*_HOME
> variables are all on the same filesystem, with the XDG_* variables
> contained within $HOME.

Oh, I was so happy when I realized I could get rid of all those
directories that kept popping from time to time just by pointing all of
XDG_* to somewhere inside $(mktemp -d). Please don't take that from me!

Best,
Maurício


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