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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 22:17:55 -0400 |
User-agent: |
Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) |
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
>> Cc: 583@debbugs.gnu.org, ferkiwi+a@gmail.com, eggert@cs.ucla.edu
>> Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2019 12:50:46 -0400
>>
>> With a proper following of the XDG spec, the concept of (a single)
>> "user-emacs-directory" would no longer be present.
>
> I'm not sure I understand why. Can you tell more? (I know very
> little about XDG.)
It's well documented, the link in the OP still works.
See also eg https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/XDG_Base_Directory
IMO a true conversion of Emacs to the XDG spec would involve the
addition of new variables (user-config-directory, user-data-directory,
user-cache-directory, etc). Each use of user-emacs-directory would have
to be reviewed to see where it actually belongs. For some, it would
probably be ambiguous.
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
- bug#583: Use XDG basedir spec for configuration files?, Paul Eggert, 2019/08/30
- bug#583: Use XDG basedir spec for configuration files?, Glenn Morris, 2019/08/30