I wholeheartedly agree with this blog post. I believe someone on here yesterday was asking about config file locations and setting them manually. This is in the same vein. I can’t tell you how many times a command line method for discovering the location of a config file would have saved me 30 minutes of googling.

  • darkevilmac@kbin.social
    25·
    2 years ago

    What I find more frustrating is undocumented environment variables to override config locations.

    The amount of times I’ve had to dig through the source code for a CLI to find an environment variable to force the config somewhere should be zero. But it’s not.

    • detectivemittens@beehaw.orgEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      This drives me freaking bonkers. A lot of times libraries tend not to expose the env var to discourage its usage but IF YOU MADE IT IN THE FIRST PLACE YOU HAD A USE CASE FOR IT.

    • ursakhiin@beehaw.org
      1·
      2 years ago

      I genuinely do not like apps using environment variables for config if they aren’t running in their own contained environment. It makes me uncomfortable.