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Use XDG basedir spec for configuration files?

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From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu, ferkiwi+a <at> gmail.com, 583 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#583: Use XDG basedir spec for configuration files?
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2019 12:50:46 -0400

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> It's great to finally see some progress in this area, but IIUC this is
>> still not really following the XDG spec. For example, I think a proper
>> solution would see user elpa packages stored undo XDG_DATA_HOME, etc.
>
> Yes, because we don't set user-emacs-directory from XDG_DATA_HOME.  We
> only load the init files from there.

I'm not sure I've made my point.
With a proper following of the XDG spec, the concept of (a single)
"user-emacs-directory" would no longer be present. Obviously this
requires more radical changes.

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