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please conform to the xdg base directory specification

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From: Thomas Koch <thomas@xxxxxxx>
To: zsh-workers@xxxxxxx
Subject: please conform to the xdg base directory specification
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 10:33:54 +0200
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The XDG base directory specification[1][2] says that configuration files should 
go in ~/.config/$APPNAME. I know that it's possible to change $ZDOTDIR in /etc 
but this would break the zsh configuration for all users that have not moved 
their config files. So zsh would need to check both $HOME and $HOME/.config/zsh 
for configuration files.

[1] http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html
[2] https://wiki.debian.org/XDGBaseDirectorySpecification

Regards, Thomas Koch

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