From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#583: Use XDG basedir spec for configuration files? Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2019 12:50:46 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83zhjtb6di.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="115102"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) Cc: ferkiwi+a@gmail.com, eggert@cs.ucla.edu, 583@debbugs.gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 28 19:06:38 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1i31P3-000Tnw-Kt for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Aug 2019 19:06:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38878 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1i31P2-0004p1-4O for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Aug 2019 13:06:36 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:41307) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1i31A0-0005BF-Nh for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Aug 2019 12:51:05 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1i319y-0007Rp-R2 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Aug 2019 12:51:04 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:42351) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1i319y-0007RY-Me for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Aug 2019 12:51:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1i319y-0001oC-JL for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Aug 2019 12:51:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Glenn Morris Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2019 16:51:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 583 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 583-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B583.15670110576939 (code B ref 583); Wed, 28 Aug 2019 16:51:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 583) by debbugs.gnu.org; 28 Aug 2019 16:50:57 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51172 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1i319t-0001nr-2V for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 28 Aug 2019 12:50:57 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:60902) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1i319q-0001na-9f for 583@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 28 Aug 2019 12:50:56 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:52110) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1i319k-0007Bh-Pv; Wed, 28 Aug 2019 12:50:48 -0400 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1i319i-0007Vw-L8; Wed, 28 Aug 2019 12:50:46 -0400 X-Spook: Shots fired Critical Infrastructure & Key Resources Bush X-Ran: c(h8,7k\v{k?\9xbg^$aGFk2IQBe_oo2eNP"cEA4"+$O1;Uz.xc=*CyKytmjv?_Hv2iGpe X-Hue: cyan X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: <83zhjtb6di.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Wed, 28 Aug 2019 19:29:45 +0300") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:166016 Archived-At: 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.