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The biggest problem with getting programs to respect the XDG spec isn't getting programs to move their config file from $HOME/.myproj.yaml to $HOME/.config/myproj/config.yaml. It's getting projects not to store configuration and secrets in the same file.

So much for checking all of $HOME/.config into a Git repository.




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