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[Bug 1887804] Re: chromium-browser does not follow XDG base directory specification

 

> Anything else has little objective value.

That's just your opinion.

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

It's an assumption, there are a lot of distributions that stay away from
snap.

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

That's just your opinion and really not up to you to decide.

> That's just your opinion/perception.

That's really just your opinion.

> I'm marking again this bug as a duplicate of bug #1575053.

It's not! The location of the snap directory is totally separate from
where chromium's configuration is stored.


** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 1575053
   Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive location

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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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