On Friday, September 15, 2017 07:45:14 AM Johannes Löthberg wrote: > Hey, > > Quoting Marc Boocha (2017-08-30 10:37:44) > > > Instead having an XDG_BIN_HOME, XDG_CONFIG_HOME, XDG_DATA_HOME, we should > > have a single XDG_PREFIX_HOME. This will be located as ~/.local.
I don't agree with the proposal, but, most especially, ~/.local might be the default, but should be easily changeable. (Also, maybe the default should be in terms of another environment variable ($HOME) instead of to an explicit location.) See below. > > Since > > make install or package manger normal produce these directories, have > > separate environmental variables is not needed. > > > > XDG_BIN_HOME is equivalent to XDG_PREFIX_HOME/bin > > > > XDG_CONFIG_HOME is equivalent to XDG_PREFIX_HOME/etc (currently ~/.config > > although I feel this is more logical) > > > > XDG_DATA_HOME is equivalent to XDG_PREFIX_HOME/share > > > > This conserves the number of environmental variable used and makes it > > easy to add extensions like headers and libraries. > > > > Also since XDG_BIN_DIRS is same as PATH, why is it even needed > > While that might be more consistent with the global directories and > potentially nicer, I have no plans of making breaking changes to the > spec that would be much less likely to be adopted. And you'd end up > having all of them set for likely years before a significant portion of > software did adopt it. > Some people still would want to have things > separate, or named differently, so we would still need the old variables > as well, which would just add more cruft to the spec. +1 > Environment > variables are cheap, not really a precious resource we need to preserve. _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list xdg@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
