control: tag -1 - patch pending On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 6:33 AM Simon McVittie wrote: > This is basically my earlier patch from #916303, except that the default > is swapped: it will continue to use ~/.steam as the $STEAMDIR for new > installations, and only use ~/.local/share/Steam (or any other $STEAMDIR) > if that was already set up. This reduces the solution to #916303 to > "swap the default".
I'm don't yet see what use case would require more than one steam installations per user, so I don't see the value of the links Valve dumps in ~/.steam. I am not yet on board with moving the steam dir to XDG_DATA_HOME. These are concerns that have already been mentioned. One, the user can seem to break their installation by changing the value of XDG_DATA_HOME. Second, this will cause clutter to both ~ and XDG_DATA_HOME. Right now the clutter is at least self contained to ~. The two viable solutions I see are. One, use a debian specific dir in ~/.steam. Two, Valve moves completely to XDG_DATA_HOME. Best wishes, Mike
