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[-] MonkderDritte@feddit.de 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

This standard makes your software's paths user-configurable, giving users a choice.

[-] refalo@programming.dev 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

And if I don't agree with how that standard is implemented? I should have the choice to use something else. Isn't that how everything works?

[-] MonkderDritte@feddit.de 1 points 5 months ago

You can of course not give users a choice. And a lot of applications do their own thing, having their own variables like GOPATH or a cli option like --config or some way to do that in a config file like Idea IDEs. But implementing XDG from start is miles simpler for all parties, it's good practice to have your paths and variables somewhat organized in code anyway.

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