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0 pointsAvamander5y ago0 comments

I have no nice words about the person who thought that folder is acceptable to use. Seriously, what the fuck even?

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djeiasbsbo5y ago· 4 in thread

Well ~/snap is pretty terrible but I am almost as annoyed with something like ~/.tmux.conf and no support for the XDG Base Dirs Spec or setting the config path.

With tmux it seems like this is finally possible with version 3.1 or by compiling it yourself but I remember being annoyed about this years ago.

I dislike a home directory cluttered with dotfiles just as much as that snap folder choice because when do we actually ever not list the hidden files?

AvamanderOP5y ago

There are way more offenders here. But snap is the most egregious one because it's not hidden.

Name and shame:

* docker (~/.docker)

* Arduino IDE (~/.arduino15)

* GNURadio (~/.gnuradio)

* IPython (~/.ipython)

* FreeCAD (~/.FreeCAD)

* HPlip (~/.hplip)

* IntelliJ and others (e.g. ~/RubyMine[year])

* Cargo (~/.cargo)

* Audacity (~/.audacity-data)

* PGAdmin (~/.pgadmin)

* ELinks (~/.elinks)

* NPM (~/.npm)

* sqlmap (~/.sqlmap)

* ZAP (~/.ZAP)

* GNUPG (~/.gnupg)

* crashlytics (~/.crashlytics)

* Android Studio (~/.android)

And so so so many others just crap all over home when they could just crap in .config if it's config and in .cache if it's cache. Lazy devs.

boring_twenties5y ago

Another stupid thing is stuff like ~/.config/<stupidprogram>/Cache.

The cache is not a config, assholes. What do you think ~/.cache is for?!

sergeykish5y ago

Quite a lot (npm, cargo, docker, ipython, elinks, gnupg, freecad, ...) already support XDG or may be configured with environment variables [0]:

    export ELINKS_CONFDIR="$XDG_CONFIG_HOME"/elinks

[0] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/XDG_Base_Directory

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ddevault5y ago

SSH is the most annoying because I need it installed on literally everything.

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ccmcarey5y ago

That and their utter refusal to permit controlling the updates of snaps. They had an announcement where they noted that the community wanted to control their own damn machines, and their solution was something like permitting delayed updates for up to a week.

What the heck is this, windows?

martinmunk5y ago

My personal theory by now is that that person/team is sick of being forced to work on a stillborn project, and is trying to create as many pain points as possible to get the project killed already. I see no other reason by now. In that case, hats off to him.

mixmastamyk5y ago

It's definitely irritating but I consider the root daemon the primary offender. Kill it with fire!

Oh, forgot to mention: /var/cache/snapd/

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8 comments · 4 top-level

djeiasbsbo5y ago· 4 in thread

Well ~/snap is pretty terrible but I am almost as annoyed with something like ~/.tmux.conf and no support for the XDG Base Dirs Spec or setting the config path.

With tmux it seems like this is finally possible with version 3.1 or by compiling it yourself but I remember being annoyed about this years ago.

I dislike a home directory cluttered with dotfiles just as much as that snap folder choice because when do we actually ever not list the hidden files?

AvamanderOP5y ago

There are way more offenders here. But snap is the most egregious one because it's not hidden.

Name and shame:

* docker (~/.docker)

* Arduino IDE (~/.arduino15)

* GNURadio (~/.gnuradio)

* IPython (~/.ipython)

* FreeCAD (~/.FreeCAD)

* HPlip (~/.hplip)

* IntelliJ and others (e.g. ~/RubyMine[year])

* Cargo (~/.cargo)

* Audacity (~/.audacity-data)

* PGAdmin (~/.pgadmin)

* ELinks (~/.elinks)

* NPM (~/.npm)

* sqlmap (~/.sqlmap)

* ZAP (~/.ZAP)

* GNUPG (~/.gnupg)

* crashlytics (~/.crashlytics)

* Android Studio (~/.android)

And so so so many others just crap all over home when they could just crap in .config if it's config and in .cache if it's cache. Lazy devs.

boring_twenties5y ago

Another stupid thing is stuff like ~/.config/<stupidprogram>/Cache.

The cache is not a config, assholes. What do you think ~/.cache is for?!

sergeykish5y ago

Quite a lot (npm, cargo, docker, ipython, elinks, gnupg, freecad, ...) already support XDG or may be configured with environment variables [0]:

    export ELINKS_CONFDIR="$XDG_CONFIG_HOME"/elinks

[0] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/XDG_Base_Directory

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ddevault5y ago

SSH is the most annoying because I need it installed on literally everything.

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ccmcarey5y ago

What the heck is this, windows?

martinmunk5y ago

mixmastamyk5y ago

It's definitely irritating but I consider the root daemon the primary offender. Kill it with fire!

Oh, forgot to mention: /var/cache/snapd/

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