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jeltz on Aug 3, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Rob Pike: the origin of dotfiles

I would have preferred if it did not rely on environment variables since almost nobody sets them which means there will be untested code in applications implementing the specification.

takluyver on Aug 3, 2012 [–]

Where possible, applications should rely on tested libraries to implement the specification, like PyXDG.

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