Could support of XDG Base Directories be considered? It would be nice to be freedesktop.org compliant and use XDG base directories by default. The sooner this is fixed the better, since the more the incorrect behavior is assumed the more difficult it will be to fix, and racket would continue to pollute home directories.
billop
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For what it's worth, I've created the basedir package for Racket for package authors to easily use the XDG basedir standard, though it doesn't help with the Racket core.
I would be in favor of moving the ~/.racket directory contents and the ~/.racketrc into appropriate XDG directories (with fallback behavior).
willghatch
on 16 Jul 2019
This would be fantastic, there's no downside to respecting users' preferences.
lhanson
on 5 Sep 2019
Any news?
roket1428
on 12 Mar 2020
workaround for now:
export PLTUSERHOME="$XDG_DATA_HOME"/racket
You can use ~/.local/share instead of XDG_DATA_HOME.
Stolen from https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/XDG_Base_Directory.
a-vrma
on 21 Apr 2020
Fixed. Closing.
sorawee
on 6 Sep 2020
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For what it's worth, I've created the basedir package for Racket for package authors to easily use the XDG basedir standard, though it doesn't help with the Racket core.
I would be in favor of moving the
~/.racketdirectory contents and the~/.racketrcinto appropriate XDG directories (with fallback behavior).