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snapd package

  1. Bug #1575053
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 1575053

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Zygmunt Krynicki (zyga) wrote : Re: User data directory should conform to XDG Base Directory Specification

This is hard to achieve technically and conceptually.

First of all, snapd manages the $HOME/snap directory in non-trivial ways. Some of those include security profiles that carefully spell out the name of that directory or rules that select anything-but that directory.

Snap doesn't what customisations have happened in each users directory. The act of re-locatin the snap directory is non trivial and may include existing bind mounts that cannot be affected by a move/rename operation.

Lastly the directory is not a good fit for .local/share. Notice that while a snap application is running it is observing a $HOME variable set to $HOME/snap/$SNAP_NAME/$SNAP_REVISION. It therefore stores all the typical XDG classes of content (.local/.config/.cache) in that one spot.