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[Olivier Tilloy <1887804@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1575053 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1575053

> `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/$SOFTWARE_NAME` is the de facto way

That's different from "does not follow the XDG base directory specification".
A specification (hopefully) is unambiguous. Anything else has little objective value.


> That snap will behave the same across distributions

That sounds like a reasonable assumption to me.


> that snap is supported on different distributions at all

That's not an assumption, it's a fact: https://snapcraft.io/docs
/installing-snapd.


> that someone even wants to install the snap package

Most (average) users don't care about packaging formats at all (nor do
they care where software stores their cache/config, for that matter).


> All of them are frankly really bad assumptions and just cause people pain.

That's just your opinion/perception.
I'm marking again this bug as a duplicate of bug #1575053. Please file a new bug for the migration of existing profiles that doesn't work for you (with details on your profiles layout), so we can track the issue separately.

** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 1575053
   Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive location

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1887804

Title:
  chromium-browser does not follow XDG base directory specification

Status in Chromium Browser:
  New
Status in chromium-browser package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Currently Chromium does not follow the XDG base directory
  specification which means that the cache and configuration folder
  aren't properly used.

  This causes the issue that it's nearly impossible to properly migrate
  or back up Chromium configuration (between computers) and it makes for
  example mounting cache as tmpfs or wiping it very very difficult.

  I felt those both immensely when trying to migrate my home folder,
  gigabytes of cache in ~/snap/chromium/[id]/.config/chromium/[folder]
  (and ~/snap itself is also not XDG base directory specification
  compliant, shame!).

  There's also the issue that the previous configuration that is located
  properly, isn't migrated by the migrational package.

  In order to fix this bug, it would require making the snap package
  follow the XDG base directory specification.

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