American_Jesus@lemm.ee to Linux@lemmy.ml · 1 year agoDotfiles matter! Please stop dumping files in users’ $HOME directories.dotfiles-matter.clickexternal-linkmessage-square155fedilinkarrow-up1686arrow-down19cross-posted to: programming@programming.dev
arrow-up1677arrow-down1external-linkDotfiles matter! Please stop dumping files in users’ $HOME directories.dotfiles-matter.clickAmerican_Jesus@lemm.ee to Linux@lemmy.ml · 1 year agomessage-square155fedilinkcross-posted to: programming@programming.dev
minus-squarenyan@lemmy.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up82·1 year agoY’know what’s worse? When there’s no dot. Worse than that, it’s an undotted directory used to store a single config file. Ugh, unpleasant memories. 😒
minus-squarepivot_root@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up39arrow-down1·1 year ago~/go is one of my major pet peeves.
minus-squareunalivejoy@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25arrow-down1·1 year agoThat’s not the only folder go creates. There’s also ~/sdks/go1.xy
minus-squarepivot_root@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoOh god, what? Is that new? Aside from the plethora of shit that are dotfiles living in ~ instead of under ~/.config, the only outlier I have at the moment is ~/go.
minus-squareandrew@lemmy.stuart.funlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down1·1 year agoThat’s just the default location for what it’s worth. You can move GOPATH wherever you want.
minus-squareBadland9085@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up16arrow-down1·1 year agoDoesn’t mean the defaults shouldn’t be sane
minus-squareChobbes@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·1 year agoThere’s a version control system called darcs that stores its configuration files in a _darcs/ directory in your project and it wounds my soul.
Y’know what’s worse? When there’s no dot. Worse than that, it’s an undotted directory used to store a single config file. Ugh, unpleasant memories. 😒
~/gois one of my major pet peeves.That’s not the only folder go creates. There’s also
~/sdks/go1.xyOh god, what? Is that new? Aside from the plethora of shit that are dotfiles living in ~ instead of under
~/.config, the only outlier I have at the moment is~/go.That’s just the default location for what it’s worth. You can move GOPATH wherever you want.
Doesn’t mean the defaults shouldn’t be sane
There’s a version control system called darcs that stores its configuration files in a
_darcs/directory in your project and it wounds my soul.