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> From: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
> Cc: stefan@marxist.se,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2021 17:52:56 +0000
> 
> If anything, I think XDG is becoming more and more popular since 2003,
> and I wouldn't know of any other serious contender to replace XDG.

Yes, XDG is the current fashion.  As were the ones before it.

> Generally I'd agree that it would be better to provide better support
> for the problem XDG solves, without having to use XDG directly for
> cross-platform compliance, but XDG is certainly preferable to
> hard-coding directories as is still done in Emacs.

I wasn't suggesting we hard-code directories, I suggested something
quite different.