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bug#583: Use XDG basedir spec for configuration files?
From: |
Glenn Morris |
Subject: |
bug#583: Use XDG basedir spec for configuration files? |
Date: |
Wed, 28 Aug 2019 12:50:46 -0400 |
User-agent: |
Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) |
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> It's great to finally see some progress in this area, but IIUC this is
>> still not really following the XDG spec. For example, I think a proper
>> solution would see user elpa packages stored undo XDG_DATA_HOME, etc.
>
> Yes, because we don't set user-emacs-directory from XDG_DATA_HOME. We
> only load the init files from there.
I'm not sure I've made my point.
With a proper following of the XDG spec, the concept of (a single)
"user-emacs-directory" would no longer be present. Obviously this
requires more radical changes.
bug#583: Use XDG basedir spec for configuration files?, Paul Eggert, 2019/08/28
- bug#583: Use XDG basedir spec for configuration files?, Glenn Morris, 2019/08/28
- bug#583: Use XDG basedir spec for configuration files?, Paul Eggert, 2019/08/29
- bug#583: Use XDG basedir spec for configuration files?, Štěpán Němec, 2019/08/29
- bug#583: Use XDG basedir spec for configuration files?, Glenn Morris, 2019/08/29
- bug#583: Use XDG basedir spec for configuration files?, Glenn Morris, 2019/08/29
- bug#583: Use XDG basedir spec for configuration files?, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/08/29