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By the way, XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is a thing from pam_systemd(8), so this XDG vs dotfiles is somewhat the systemd debate in disguise.

The person who wrote pam_systemd(8) als co-authored the XDG basedir spec.



Not really at all. Anything can use the XDG spec, it has absolutely no coupling to systemd. Really it's about apps chosing between

- use some form of $APPDIR variable convention

- using some app-specific $MYAPP_CONFIG variable (ick, but at least it's configurable)

- just dump it in $HOME and pollute that top level namespace




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