[aspell-devel] Suggestion in Debian#900164: Please use XDG basedir paths for user config and data files

[Agustin Martin]

Hi,

We have recevied following suggestion by Guillem Jover, in Debian bug
tracking system, see https://bugs.debian.org/900164

Guillem wrote:

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The aspell config ~/.aspell.conf and user personal word and replace
files ~/.aspell.LL.prepl and ~/.aspell.LL.pws are read directly from
the user home directory. This makes for an untify home. :)

It would be nice if aspell would support the XDG basedir standard [X]
and those would be looked up first under something like:

  ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-~/.config}/aspell/aspell.conf
  ${XDG_DATA_HOME:-~/.local/share}/aspell/aspell.LL.prepl
  ${XDG_DATA_HOME:-~/.local/share}/aspell/aspell.LL.pws

[X] https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.htm
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I also think it would be nice to have a configuration option at build time
to have this behavior or allow it in some way, so I am forwarding this bug
report in case someone thinks it worths (and writes the code).

Regards,

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Agustin