[arch-general] XDG variables no longer set

Eric Bélanger snowmaniscool at gmail.com
Tue Feb 26 11:16:17 EST 2013


On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 6:42 AM, Robbie Smith <zoqaeski at gmail.com> wrote:
> For some reason, after my last reboot (a kernel update), none of the XDG
> variables[1] (such as $XDG_CONFIG_HOME) are being set, which broke a lot of
> my configuration, as I rely on those in scripts.
>
> I was able to fix it by writing a script[2] to drop in /etc/profile.d/ that
> would create those directories and export the variables as required, but
> what I want to know is why they broke in the first place.
>
> Has anyone else experienced this?
>
> Robbie
>

These were removed recently. You might want to leave a comment on the
bug report:
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/31204


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