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[Seth Arnold <1423890@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Some discussion on xdg paths has happened here,
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/apparmor/2013-August/004183.html --
it'd be nice to revive this.

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Title:
  AppArmor support for the XDG Base Directory spec is incomplete

Status in apparmor package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Based on the version of apparmor in trusty-updates:

  Various profiles grant permissions for files in @{HOME}/.cache/. This
  is only sufficient as long as one hasn't set the environment variable
  XDG_CACHE_HOME to point somewhere else. (Use case: store caches
  locally when home directories are on a remote fileserver.)

  I'd suggest defining a new tunable
  @{XDG_CACHE_HOME}=@{HOME}/.cache/
  which local administrators could augment as needed (e.g.,
  @{XDG_CACHE_HOME}+=/var/cache/xdg/*/
  or whatever the local convention may be).

  Similar treatment may be needed for the other environment variables mentioned in the XDG basedir spec:
  XDG_CONFIG_HOME for @{HOME}/.config
  XDG_DATA_HOME for @{HOME}/.local/share (and/or @{HOME}/.local ?)

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