On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 7:29 AM, Martin Mokrejs
<mmokr...@fold.natur.cuni.cz> wrote:

> Hmm. Could it be by default the current working directory instead? Or, 
> try/else added to the code
> which would try to write into cwd if $HOME (aka $MPLCONFIGDIR) returns an 
> error?

The stuff we store there is meant to be persistent between runs,
primarily a cache of all the fonts we find on your system.  So
defaulting to the current working directory is not a good idea because
then we would have configs littered across the filesystem and would
not be able to take advantage of the information gleaned from previous
runs from other directories.

JDH

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