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Hackers Mind Map
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Config location #30

Closed jonas-w closed 2 years ago

jonas-w commented 2 years ago

I think it would be better to put the config in XDG_CONFIG_HOME ($HOME/.config/). I don't know the locations for other Operating Systems.

If the script is in e.g. /usr/bin the user would need root rights to edit the config and there would not be an option for per user configuration on multi user systems. Also having configs in /usr/bin is not good/common practice.

nadrad commented 2 years ago

Yes, it's not fine now. I was also thinking about having more options for settings:

command line arguments > environmental variables > config file > defaults

There can be one extra command line argument to introduce a config file in a non-default location as well. Although, I'm thinking whether or not it's required to have a config file when people can simply use environment variables. I guess it's easier for most people to use a config file.

nadrad commented 2 years ago

Done. There's more information about it in the readme file.