[Bug 20888] Use XDG Base Directory Specification

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20888

--- Comment #6 from Eric Heintzmann <Heintzmann.Eric at free.fr> 2012-12-15 08:07:06 CST ---
(In reply to comment #5)

Why not setting WINEPREFIX by default to
be $XDG_DATA_HOME/wine/prefixes/default?

There are advantages of following XDG basedir specification :

- a lot less cluttered $HOME
- Make backups a lot more safer and easier. (you know that backuping your
$XDG_DATA_HOME along with your files is enough or excludind $XDG_CACHE_HOME)
- A lot easier to reset a default configuration if you want/need it (and
without any risk to loose informations). Even for the software itself could
choose to reset $XDG_CONFIG_HOME if needed.
- Avoid some strange bugs that happens because you had a old version of some
configuration file
- A lot more of flexibility and portability because no path are hardcoded.

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