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		account42 on June 5, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Debian's /tmpest in a teapot > Hell, default Debian/Ubuntu still doesn't set XDG_* directory ENVs by default (some flavors do) You are supposed to leave them unset if they match the defaults. Programs ignoring the spec is another matter and should be fixed in those programs not by needlessly bloating the environment of every process with meaningless data.

zbowling on June 5, 2024 [–]

> meaningless data

Things like .git and .ssh not are not meaningless data even though they are not in ~/.config/ssh/ or ~/.local/shared/git.

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