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Show HN: boxxy – Control where Linux programs put files, without symlinks

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Re: Show HN: boxxy – Control where Linux programs put files, without symlinks

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Post by adhoc_slime »

Hah I was literally just complaining about applications not following the XDG directory spec today.

there's a non-exhaustive list of applications on the archwiki [0] that put their config/data in dotfiles in the home directory. surprisingly, there's also lots of pushback from maintainers of projects who don't want to change this, for whatever excuse they can produce. a Reddit thread has some list of issues where the change is brought up [1].

Anyway, I'll look forward to testing this out.

[0] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XDG_Base_Directory

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/971m0z/im_tired_of_f...

Re: Show HN: boxxy – Control where Linux programs put files, without symlinks

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Post by sosodev »

notamy wrote: post #5
whalesalad wrote: post #4

Is this named after the one and only boxxy?!

No! I just thought it was a cute name ("put things in a box"), and it wasn't a common repo name on GitHub.

You might be surprised how many of us were obsessed with Boxxy lol.

Re: Show HN: boxxy – Control where Linux programs put files, without symlinks

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Post by notamy »

oneplane wrote: post #8

AWS an interesting example considering it's also a default search path for the SDK so anything using an AWS SDK is going to check for ~/.aws/config; does boxxy apply the rules to anything run in a shell, or only if 'run by boxxy'?

Only in the latter case; I didn't want to assume how people want things done, and implicitly magical tools break more often than not in my experience.

You may also be able to tell I don't have a lot of AWS experience (:

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