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evotopid

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From: Switzerland

Registered: 2013-02-03

Posts: 8

Configuring profile path of a package

Lately I have been cleaning up my "Documents" folder (I want to get rid of it and only have a "Dokumente" folder ) and an application whose folder always keeps being created there is Anki.
There is the possibility to pass the profile path as a command line argument Anki. So as a specific workaround for myself I can add the parameter in the .desktop file.

However this makes me wonder if this is the right way to do it or if there is a better mechanism to provide this kind of package level configuration in Arch?
Personally I feel like "~/Documents/Anki" might be the wrong location for this kind of profile data and it would be better located in "~/.Anki" or "~/.anki" however I am not sure if this constitutes an actual packaging bug or if Arch considers upstream's default decisison to be the right one in this case? Any opinions on this?

fsckd

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Registered: 2009-06-15

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Re: Configuring profile path of a package

Moving from Arch Discussion to Applications & Desktop Environments.

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alphaniner

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Re: Configuring profile path of a package

I'm not a dev/TU, but as a rule packages stick to upstream as much as possible. At least that's my understanding. IOW regardless of anyone's opinion of upstream choice, I doubt it would be accepted as a packaging bug.

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x33a

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Registered: 2009-08-15

Posts: 4,587

Re: Configuring profile path of a package

If you are annoyed on seeing the Documents folder, you can set the documents directory to some other directory (preferably a hidden one).

See: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xd … irectories

evotopid

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From: Switzerland

Registered: 2013-02-03

Posts: 8

Re: Configuring profile path of a package

Thanks x33a I didn't know there was xdg-user-dirs. Configuring it was really as easy as it sounds and Anki respects its configuration (however I will probably still go with my first mentioned workaround but keep xdg-user-dirs for future applications). I still believe that this directory would have been better be located in "~/.anki" by default because it essentially stores configuration and profile data but if consensus is to just respect this upstream decision then I guess I am kind of ok with that.

x33a

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Registered: 2009-08-15

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Re: Configuring profile path of a package

I was going to ask you to open an upstream feature request, but apparently this issue has been raised multiple times in the past.

https://github.com/dae/anki/pull/58

In any case, don't expect our packagers to modify upstream choices.