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[–] 59 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

It's one thing when they have legacy hardcode mountains preventing a standardisation, but I really dislike developers who just disagree with the standard and take away the choice as well and justify it with some made up problems with that standard.

https://github.com/minetest/minetest/issues/864

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=735285

etc...

Archlinux Wiki even has an article about those.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XDG_Base_Directory#Hardcoded

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    who would win?

    dozens of conflicting standards on where to store files over years of poorly enforced linux development practice

    vs

    some symlink bois


    for real tho, I discovered gnu-stow the other day and it looks like the ideal solution for this sorta stuff

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