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...t the root level. OpenSSH itself would not need to create these directories either, as it may simply prioritise and continue to create the existing ~/.ssh directory. The approach I'm suggesting is one that plenty of long-standing software has taken up in order to provide the opt-in approach of XDGBDS support. Notably, Git provides such a fallback option in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config in place of the default ~/.gitconfig, as does GNU Emacs among others. More recently, even Bash has warmed up to the idea despite initially being opposed to the suggestion to change the locations of ~/.bash_profile...

...level. OpenSSH itself would not need to create these directories either, as it may simply prioritise and continue to create the existing ~/.ssh directory. > > The approach I'm suggesting is one that plenty of long-standing software has taken up in order to provide the opt-in approach of XDGBDS support. Notably, Git provides such a fallback option in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config in place of the default ~/.gitconfig, as does GNU Emacs among others. More recently, even Bash has warmed up to the idea despite initially being opposed to the suggestion to change the locations of ~/.bash_profile...