alt Hacker NewsI don’t mind ~/.* for config, especially when the config is just one or two files. What I don’t like is programs like go and cargo treating my $HOME as a dumping ground for every file they want to download and/or cache.
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ryandrake • yesterday at 4:11 PM
In general, I find it unacceptable for programs to use (anywhere in) my file system, besides /tmp, as a dumping ground for their caches and downloads, without cleaning it up.
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At least cargo places everything in a .cargo directory, so it doesn’t display by default. Go will instead write to $HOME/go, without even the decency to use a hidden directory, unless you first define the GOPATH environment variable.
And if you install more than one version of go, they get placed in $HOME/sdk [0]. Last I checked, this path is hard-coded with no override, despite this being a known issue for 8 years.
[0] https://github.com/golang/go/issues/26520