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minus-square@5714@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilink59•edit-21 year agoIt’s one thing when they have legacy hardcode mountains preventing a standardisation, but I really dislike developers who just disagree with the standard and take away the choice as well and justify it with some made up problems with that standard. https://github.com/minetest/minetest/issues/864 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=735285 etc… Archlinux Wiki even has an article about those. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XDG_Base_Directory#Hardcoded
minus-square@merthyr1831@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink28•1 year agowho would win? dozens of conflicting standards on where to store files over years of poorly enforced linux development practice vs some symlink bois for real tho, I discovered gnu-stow the other day and it looks like the ideal solution for this sorta stuff
It’s one thing when they have legacy hardcode mountains preventing a standardisation, but I really dislike developers who just disagree with the standard and take away the choice as well and justify it with some made up problems with that standard.
https://github.com/minetest/minetest/issues/864
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=735285
etc…
Archlinux Wiki even has an article about those.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XDG_Base_Directory#Hardcoded
who would win?
dozens of conflicting standards on where to store files over years of poorly enforced linux development practice
vs
some symlink bois
for real tho, I discovered gnu-stow the other day and it looks like the ideal solution for this sorta stuff
vs. user choice via variable.
“Am I out of touch?
No, it is the users who are wrong!”
That’s how my employer does it…