Steve Dower <steve.do...@python.org> added the comment:

Yeah, that's all reasonable.

But why wouldn't we go the other way and say "getting a user directory for a 
different user is not supported and all existing ways to do it are now 
deprecated"?

I know you think that's not a relevant argument right now, but it is a related 
one, and any change to the status quo justifies bringing it back up. So now 
it's up, we want to decide on it before we make another change that could run 
counter to the overall direction.

So I think, given the unlikelihood of us being able to properly fix the 
functionality, that we should deprecate getting another user's directory 
completely and, hence, not add new entry points to deprecated API.

Convince me I'm wrong :)

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