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9dev
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Why are there both TMP and TEMP environment variab...
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.
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https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir/latest/
hollerith
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The problems this standard solves are not hard, and "elegant" is not how I'd describe the solution.
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Say what you want about AI but one nice aspect of it is that it is more likely to follow these kinds of standards than humans.
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[0]: https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir/latest/