> some have hardcoded those paths in other scripts
My sympathy is lacking, as is my respect for those running projects that hardcode paths. Stop hardcoding paths and the world will be a better place.
My sympathy is lacking, as is my respect for those running projects that hardcode paths. Stop hardcoding paths and the world will be a better place.
This also had the side effect of hiding entries that had names beginning with ".", and over time an implementation bug/quirk became accepted behaviour, and was post-hoc rationalised as "hidden" files.
But when people are talking about compliance, and hardcoding very few people are talking about those applications - there are hundreds of other applications do the wrong thing, and some scripts hardcode things as a result.
If you get to the point where you need another file for something, put it in a directory under .config so whenever you need to add even more, you don't keep cluttering my home.