A great example of a decision that likely received little to no thought from an early developer but that has long legs and will stick around forever.
There's nothing more permanent than a TMPorary decision.
I love that!
Why are there both TMP and TEMP environment variables? (2015)
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Re: Why are there both TMP and TEMP environment variables? (2015)
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Yea this is something I'd love to see standardised, a distro that was able to enforce a .config folder somehow would be a winner for me. Think weve probably missed the boat though.
As these things go, there obviously is a standard for this called the XDG Base Directory Specification[0], which elegantly solves almost all configuration path needs—and has been ignored, violated, or only partially implemented, since forever. [0]: https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir/latest/
The problems this standard solves are not hard, and "elegant" is not how I'd describe the solution.