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[-] 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com 59 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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

[-] merthyr1831@lemmy.world 28 points 10 months ago

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

[-] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 4 points 10 months ago

vs. user choice via variable.

[-] anarchy79@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

"Am I out of touch?
No, it is the users who are wrong!"

[-] Malfeasant@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

That's how my employer does it...

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