XDG base directories and trash outside $HOME device

[David Faure]

On Tuesday 24 June 2014 22:06:36 Maurício Antunes wrote:
> > 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!

What's the use case for not being able save configuration at all, from one run 
to the next?

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