@American_Jesus@lemm.ee to Linux@lemmy.ml • 9 months agoDotfiles matter! Please stop dumping files in users’ $HOME directories.dotfiles-matter.clickmessage-square156fedilinkarrow-up1684arrow-down19cross-posted to: programming@programming.dev
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minus-square@nyan@lemmy.cafelinkfedilinkEnglish82•9 months 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-squareunalivejoylinkfedilinkEnglish24•9 months agoThat’s not the only folder go creates. There’s also ~/sdks/go1.xy
minus-square@pivot_root@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink2•9 months 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-squareandrewlinkfedilinkEnglish8•9 months agoThat’s just the default location for what it’s worth. You can move GOPATH wherever you want.
minus-square@Badland9085@lemm.eelinkfedilink15•9 months agoDoesn’t mean the defaults shouldn’t be sane
minus-square@Chobbes@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink6•9 months 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.