Please vote: xdg base dir spec

[Josh Boyer]

On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 2:44 PM, Owen Taylor <otaylor at redhat.com> wrote:
> -1 - I think Matthias covers the basic reasoning well at:
>
>  https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/desktop/2014-October/011032.html
>
> Beyond that: the vast majority of applications available for Fedora will
> not be installed by default - it's not much of a carrot to tell an upstream
> application author that they need to conform the basedir standard to be
> included by default, when they *won't* be installed by default.
>
> If we want Firefox to conform to the basedir spec we need to try to achieve
> that by communication and possibly providing help with it - not by policy.

I agree with this entirely.

josh