Subject: Re: bug#74781: [PATCH] Add `browse-url-qutebrowser'

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2024 18:16:53 +0200

> Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked]
> Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2024 15:38:13 +0100
> From:  Daniel Mendler via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
>  the Swiss army knife of text editors" <[email-masked]>
> 
> See also the files files.el, server.el, startup.el and mpc.el, which all
> access XDG_* environment variables via `getenv' without requiring
> xdg.el. The `getenv' function calls are certainly not less readable than
> `xdg-runtime-dir'.

We avoid xdg.el in preloaded files, but not elsewhere.