[Bug 2050] Support XDG basedir specification

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https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2050

Drew DeVault <sir at cmpwn.com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|RESOLVED                    |REOPENED
         Resolution|WONTFIX                     |---

--- Comment #14 from Drew DeVault <sir at cmpwn.com> ---
(In reply to Damien Miller from comment #13)
> Spam-reopening this bug and making personal insults isn't going to
> help your case.

It's been twelve years and users still demand this feature. What else
do you expect?

>  * OpenSSH's use of ~/.ssh predates the XDG specification by some
> years

What of it? OpenSSH predates heaps of things that it ended up
including.

>  * OpenSSH is not desktop software to begin with anyway.

What of it? Plenty of non-desktop tools obey XDG basedirs. And SSH
*does* have X11 support!

>  * Many third-party tools, scripts and habits depend on this
> location.

What of it? They would still work. No one is telling SSH to stop
reading ~/.ssh.

>  * OpenSSH is security software and scattering important
> configuration across multiple-directories can yield unpleasant
> surprises

Like what?

You're pulling answers out of a hat, and haven't provided a good
rationale for any of them, for over a decade. Your excuses are
incredibly thin, and seem to only be here to retroactively justify
inaction. Will you knock it off already?

I'm reopening this, again, not because I am creating spam in doing so,
but because I am correcting a wrong. You are *in the wrong*. It's time
you admit it and stop defending your ego by using thin excuses to
justify bad behavior.

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