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XDG Base Directory Specification not followed

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Describe the bug Ghidra does not follow the XDG Base Directories Specification.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

Install ghidra
Run ghidra

Expected behavior Following the XDG Base Directory Specification.

Environment (please complete the following information):

OS: Arch Linux
Java Version:

openjdk version "1.8.0_222"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_222-b05)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.222-b05, mixed mode)

Ghidra Version: 8369ef12a28028a920b041c693ae75f75ffce807

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 4 years ago
Reactions:22
Comments:12

Top GitHub Comments

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nsajkocommented, Jan 13, 2020

@billop To be fair, the specification has nothing to do with Linux (the kernel). So this is not a defect/bug.

But this is coming from someone who sometimes uses some Environment variables defined by the specification.

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LCRERGOcommented, Dec 9, 2021

Actually the distro maintainers do not assume that the XDG variables are set, what happens generally when you develop an application that follows the XDG specification is that they try to use the XDG variables if they are set, if not they use what should be “the default” location. e.g: XDG_CACHE_HOME = $HOME/.cache

It should also be noted that there 5 directories/variables that are included in the XDG specification, but normally on most applications only XDG_CACHE_HOME, XDG_CONFIG_HOME and XDG_DATA_HOME are used. For more details on that I suggest XDG Base Directory.

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