Re: [aspell-devel] Suggestion in Debian#900164: Please use XDG basedir paths for user config and data files

[Kevin Atkinson]

Hi,

I agree somewhat.  I filed this issue on Aspell's bug tracker at 
https://github.com/GNUAspell/aspell/issues/560.

Kevin

On Thu, 31 Jan 2019, Agustin Martin wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We have recevied following suggestion by Guillem Jover, in Debian bug
> tracking system, see https://bugs.debian.org/900164
>
> Guillem wrote:
>
> ---------- 8< ---------------------------------
> The aspell config ~/.aspell.conf and user personal word and replace
> files ~/.aspell.LL.prepl and ~/.aspell.LL.pws are read directly from
> the user home directory. This makes for an untify home. :)
>
> It would be nice if aspell would support the XDG basedir standard [X]
> and those would be looked up first under something like:
>
>  ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-~/.config}/aspell/aspell.conf
>  ${XDG_DATA_HOME:-~/.local/share}/aspell/aspell.LL.prepl
>  ${XDG_DATA_HOME:-~/.local/share}/aspell/aspell.LL.pws
>
> [X] https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.htm
> ---------- 8< ---------------------------------
>
> I also think it would be nice to have a configuration option at build time
> to have this behavior or allow it in some way, so I am forwarding this bug
> report in case someone thinks it worths (and writes the code).
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Agustin
>
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