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		chmln on Feb 3, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Dotfile madness > you have to put so many gitignore exceptions and I'm not even talking about the gigs of data all the chromium derivatives put into that folder Yeah but chrome devs half-assing the trivial xdg spec doesn't mean that xdg sucks - its just not implemented properly.

Something1234 on Feb 3, 2019 [–]

I think xdg has an issue of being obtuse when I googled it a while ago, it was very confusing, and I didn't find any real definitions. However I didn't look that hard.

AnIdiotOnTheNet on Feb 3, 2019 | | [–]

Freedesktop standards are nothing if not overly complicated and confusing.

wilmoore on Feb 9, 2019 | | [–]

I agree, you didn't look very hard.

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