Just out of curiosity: is being compliant with the XDG Base Directory
Specification out-of-the-box (
https://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html)
currently viewed as a non-goal for Emacs?  (The emphasis being on
"out-of-the-box").

On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 3:28 AM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> > From: Max <maxim.suraev@campus.tu-berlin.de>
> > Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2016 23:32:01 +0100
> >
> > As an Emacs user I would like to kindly request you to reconsider this
> bug.
> >
> > I think that the added complexity (look at the patch size, and even that
> is more
> > comments than code) is more than justified by the convenience it adds.
>
> The "complexity" mentioned in the discussion of this bug did not
> allude to the size or complexity of the patch, it alluded to the
> complexity this would add to Emacs and its development/maintenance:
> where previously user-emacs-directory and the directory pointed to by
> HOME in the environment were one and the same, now they will not be.
>
> I think if we want to revisit this issue, we should come up with the
> use cases where this feature would be useful, and see if they are
> important enough to justify the price.  AFAIR, no use cases were
> provided with the original request.
>
> Thanks.
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