On Wed, 2014-01-29 at 09:58 +0100, Jan Matejka wrote: > What's the point of having nonempty XDG_ variables in ebuilds?
One big reason is FEATURES=test. Test suites for freedesktop-compliant programs that actually run the program are likely to fail if XDG_* directories are resolved as something unwriteable. Also, many gnome-related packages have a build system that won't work if XDG_* variables are wrong. Python packages that use sphinx to generate API docs at build time will hit a sandbox violation if XDG_CONFIG_HOME is unwriteable, see https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=499068 I would be astonished if some packages for kde, xfce, and other desktop environments are not affected as well.
