From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Default for image-dired-main-image-directory Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2021 19:15:08 +0300 Message-ID: <83ilxjyd83.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83sfwp1c27.fsf@gnu.org> <83a6iwylp7.fsf@gnu.org> <87a6ivvr5t.fsf@localhost> <83wnlzyir1.fsf@gnu.org> <877ddzvnni.fsf@localhost> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="20842"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: stefan@marxist.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Ihor Radchenko Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 26 18:21:20 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mfPCS-0005DA-3W for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 26 Oct 2021 18:21:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56364 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mfPCR-00020N-1i for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 26 Oct 2021 12:21:19 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:59502) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mfP6v-0003wQ-91 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Oct 2021 12:15:37 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:33338) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mfP6t-0001tR-FG; Tue, 26 Oct 2021 12:15:36 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=diBzT+pI+V+rjZ6Vc670C2rqNoyMlM5Hn2Le/r+5cXw=; b=aN4Ar9rraHLt RiKzcOgB8QIFitNYPhSiJaovXYjT734p9LUxGZZ9EvBJIQqMyC1lPgoeJis+54bMvYdmqt4IPvpsQ LjW+Ob30mdVqUwKqipj2ta6nnCyM15YreY+I58889AZf14DWrNMMUmIjeGzCTZv4vGjdnS/Urab/2 quqQY3LiIdZPTStqY8Z8XXVNkE+xyCyE5uiQC+D89bBoxfYyfOsypP54kl3UfKOJSSXGTZCupu/kM WoiJcaesrVDSK9CeD4Gv5gk9pQW5wbOz8l1ac3sUluz/QntVNwn2A95SmYdNl+Xl0u46ryR+HdNcI TQ+mZtm7lhs4PLmz21MQpA==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (port=1322 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mfP6W-0003aA-Ec; Tue, 26 Oct 2021 12:15:16 -0400 In-Reply-To: <877ddzvnni.fsf@localhost> (message from Ihor Radchenko on Tue, 26 Oct 2021 22:58:09 +0800) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:277885 Archived-At: > From: Ihor Radchenko > Cc: stefan@marxist.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2021 22:58:09 +0800 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > >> Essentially, it is similar to XDG directory set, but all the directories > >> are inside .emacs.d by default. > > > > That's a different philosophy, and since it contradicts XDG, which > > many people want, I don't think we can go that way, except as an > > opt-in feature (which will then become a maintenance burden, as it > > will be yet another, third, set of defaults). > > Not necessarily. no-littering provides a unified directory structure to > be used by other packages. Yes, it defaults to structure inside .emacs.d > (and thus do not need to bother with OS-specific conventions), but > that's not required: You say "not necessarily", but then proceed to describe details that actually agree with what I said. It is fine to provide such a feature, I'm just saying that XDG requires different directories, and so these two arrangements contradict each other.