Dotfiles matter! Please stop dumping files in users’ $HOME directories.
Dotfiles matter! Please stop dumping files in users’ $HOME directories.
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Y'know what's worse? When there's no dot. Worse than that, it's an undotted directory used to store a single config file. Ugh, unpleasant memories. 😒
82 0 Reply~/go
is one of my major pet peeves.39 1 ReplyThat's not the only folder go creates. There's also
~/sdks/go1.xy
25 1 ReplyOh god, what? Is that new? Aside from the plethora of shit that are dotfiles living in ~ instead of under
~/.config
, the only outlier I have at the moment is~/go
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That's just the default location for what it's worth. You can move GOPATH wherever you want.
9 1 ReplyDoesn’t mean the defaults shouldn’t be sane
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There's a version control system called darcs that stores its configuration files in a
_darcs/
directory in your project and it wounds my soul.6 0 Reply