▲ 841 ▼ "Cloud" Devs (lemmy.ml) submitted 11 months ago by jankforlife@lemmy.ml to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev 73 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Speiser0@feddit.org 5 points 11 months ago (1 child) Nah you should use xdg dirs, it's 2025. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] HER0@beehaw.org 3 points 11 months ago (1 child) Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but as shown in your link, $HOME does not conflict with the XDG Base Directory Specification. It partially relies on $HOME being defined. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Speiser0@feddit.org 2 points 11 months ago Subdirs of $HOME are used as defaults. So using $HOME alone is not enough. Also, prior to xdg dirs, applications were (many still are) storing their data under $HOME/.myapplication/. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] HER0@beehaw.org 3 points 11 months ago (1 child) Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but as shown in your link, $HOME does not conflict with the XDG Base Directory Specification. It partially relies on $HOME being defined. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Speiser0@feddit.org 2 points 11 months ago Subdirs of $HOME are used as defaults. So using $HOME alone is not enough. Also, prior to xdg dirs, applications were (many still are) storing their data under $HOME/.myapplication/. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Speiser0@feddit.org 2 points 11 months ago Subdirs of $HOME are used as defaults. So using $HOME alone is not enough. Also, prior to xdg dirs, applications were (many still are) storing their data under $HOME/.myapplication/. permalink fedilink source parent
