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[-] 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com 59 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago

vs. user choice via variable.

[-] anarchy79@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Malfeasant@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

That's how my employer does it...

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