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All programs should tell you where they store config files (utcc.utoronto.ca)

submitted 1 year ago by wet_lettuce@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org

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I wholeheartedly agree with this blog post. I believe someone on here yesterday was asking about config file locations and setting them manually. This is in the same vein. I can't tell you how many times a command line method for discovering the location of a config file would have saved me 30 minutes of googling.

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[–] nothacking@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I use linux and this annoys me to, every program just spams my home directory with config files, even though .config and .cache exist and are the standard

[–] brie@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

Programming tools/IDEs seem especially egregious.

.android
.cargo
.choosenim
.conda
.emacs.d
.nimble
.npm
.rustup

[–] Dohnakun@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Set XDG_CONFIG_HOME= in your environment and most tools follow it

[–] nothacking@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have, unfortunatly a lot of programs dont.

[–] Dohnakun@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Right, forgot. And the specific workaround.

[–] xavier666@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Run ls -al | wc -l to see the mess. If you can get it below 25, you have a clean setup.