XDG Base Directory Specification

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On Mon, 11 May 2020 12:49:05 +0200
password-store at storiepvtride.it wrote:

> Am 11.05.20 um 07:42 schrieb Guy Godfroy:
> > In this case it will, because the password-store directory is only
> > configured with an environment variable, and a lot of people didn't
> > override this variable.
> 
> The specification [0] says that if $XDG_CONFIG_HOME and $XDG_DATA_HOME
> are not set they will implicitely point to "~/.config" and "~/.local/share
> ".
> 
> So - yes - care should be taken to check for an already existing
> installation in the current default path. Currently I work around with:
> 
> 
> 
> $ export PASSWORD_STORE_DIR=$XDG_CONFIG_DIR/.password-store
> 
> 
> Maybe a good strategy could be to check in this order:
> 
> ~/.password-store
> $XDG_CONFIG_DIR/.password-store
Shouldn't this be:

~/.password-store
$XDG_DATA_HOME/.password-store

As I understand XDG_CONFIG_DIR should contain configuration files. Password
store is data, not configuration - so it should go to XDG_DATA_HOME.

> [0]
> https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html#variables

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