I wholeheartedly agree with this blog post. I believe someone on here yesterday was asking about config file locations and setting them manually. This is in the same vein. I can’t tell you how many times a command line method for discovering the location of a config file would have saved me 30 minutes of googling.

    • exu@feditown.com
      4·
      2 years ago

      The exceptions should only apply for cases where XDG is not available. In any other case, the appropriate XDG directoy configured by the user should be used first.

    • dan@upvote.au
      4·
      2 years ago

      For user-specific config files, aren’t they all supposed to be in ~/.config these days? I’ve never heard of software using ~/etc.