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[Bug 1061693] Re: No abstraction over xdg-basedirs and xdg-user-dirs

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From: Jamie Strandboge <jamie@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 22:58:22 -0000
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** Changed in: apparmor
       Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released

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Title:
  No abstraction over xdg-basedirs and xdg-user-dirs

Status in AppArmor Linux application security framework:
  Fix Released
Status in “apparmor” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Per a freedesktop.org spec

    http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-
  latest.html#variables

  users may modify certain environment variables to override the
  locations in which applications store / cache data.

  Most of the apparmor profiles shipped by Ubuntu hardcode the defaults
  specified by XDG, meaning that if someone wants to change this, they
  need to modify every profile for the change. It would be great if this
  could be made easier, either by whitelisting these environment
  variables or by introducing a tunable and modifying all profiles
  shipped by default to use it.

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