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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 22:17:55 -0400

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
>> Cc: 583 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,  ferkiwi+a <at> gmail.com,  eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu
>> Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2019 12:50:46 -0400
>> 
>> With a proper following of the XDG spec, the concept of (a single)
>> "user-emacs-directory" would no longer be present.
>
> I'm not sure I understand why.  Can you tell more?  (I know very
> little about XDG.)

It's well documented, the link in the OP still works.
See also eg https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/XDG_Base_Directory

IMO a true conversion of Emacs to the XDG spec would involve the
addition of new variables (user-config-directory, user-data-directory,
user-cache-directory, etc). Each use of user-emacs-directory would have
to be reviewed to see where it actually belongs. For some, it would
probably be ambiguous.

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