<div dir="ltr"><div style="" class="markdown-here-wrapper"><p style="margin:1.2em 0px!important">hi marc-andre,</p>
<p style="margin:1.2em 0px!important">you seem some misconceptions and a <em>very</em> different experience from mine:</p>
<p style="margin:1.2em 0px!important">M.-A. Lemburg <a href="http://mailto:mal@egenix.com">mal@egenix.com</a> schrieb am Mi., 2. Sep. 2015 um 11:30 Uhr:</p>
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Looking at the my home dir on Linux, there doesn't seem to be<br>
one standard, but rather a whole set of them</blockquote><p></p></div><p style="margin:1.2em 0px!important"></p>
<p style="margin:1.2em 0px!important">can you please link to the document from a standards authority describing those other stadards? 😉</p>
<p style="margin:1.2em 0px!important"></p><div class="markdown-here-exclude"><p></p><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> and the good old ~/.appname is still a popular one (e.g. pip and ansible from<br>
Python land still use it; as do many other non-Python applications<br>
such as ncftp, emacs, svn, git, gpg, etc.).<br></blockquote><p></p></div><p style="margin:1.2em 0px!important"></p>
<p style="margin:1.2em 0px!important">as hinted at by my tongue-in-cheek comment from above: that’s not a standard but an old convention.</p>
<p style="margin:1.2em 0px!important">git uses <code style="font-size:0.85em;font-family:Consolas,Inconsolata,Courier,monospace;margin:0px 0.15em;padding:0px 0.3em;white-space:pre-wrap;border:1px solid rgb(234,234,234);background-color:rgb(248,248,248);border-radius:3px;display:inline">${XDG_CONFIG_DIR-$HOME/.config}/git/config</code> (try it!), as does pip.</p>
<p style="margin:1.2em 0px!important">the other ones are old as dirt so this is excusable. regarding newly developed programs i’ll only approve it for some rare exceptions like shells, where <code style="font-size:0.85em;font-family:Consolas,Inconsolata,Courier,monospace;margin:0px 0.15em;padding:0px 0.3em;white-space:pre-wrap;border:1px solid rgb(234,234,234);background-color:rgb(248,248,248);border-radius:3px;display:inline">~/.${SHELL}rc</code> really is the only expected place for a config file. (and not that me approving it means something)</p>
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~/.config/ does get some use, but mostly for GUI applications,<br>
not so much for command line ones.<br></blockquote><p></p></div><p style="margin:1.2em 0px!important"></p>
<p style="margin:1.2em 0px!important">where do you get this figure from? the xdg standard doesn’t say anything about only a kind of application being targeted by the standard, and as my fontconfig example shows, even libraries follow it.</p>
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~/.local/lib/ only appears to be used by Python :-)<br></blockquote><p></p></div><p style="margin:1.2em 0px!important"></p>
<p style="margin:1.2em 0px!important">yeah, on my system it doesn’t even exist! but that has a reson which you can read in the standard: only ~/.local/share is pointed at by the default for a standard dir. ~/.local/lib is probably an invention by whoever included that path in the default $PYTHONPATH</p>
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~/.local/share/ is mostly used by desktops to register application shortcuts<br></blockquote><p></p></div><p style="margin:1.2em 0px!important"></p>
<p style="margin:1.2em 0px!important">that’s a big understatement, there’s all kinds of stuff in there. i have 56 dirs and files in there.</p>
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~/.cache/ is being used by just a handful of tools, pip being one of them.<br></blockquote><p></p></div><p style="margin:1.2em 0px!important"></p>
<p style="margin:1.2em 0px!important">hah! various parts of KDE, matplotlib, gstreamer, chromium, fontconfig, atom, shall i go on?</p>
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--<br>
Marc-Andre Lemburg<br>
eGenix.com<br></blockquote><p></p></div><p style="margin:1.2em 0px!important"></p>
<p style="margin:1.2em 0px!important">i hope i could convince you that this isn’t “some contender among manyâ€, but really <em>the</em> standard for some directories on linux.</p>
<p style="margin:1.2em 0px!important">best, phil </p>
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