Bug 904969 – app-misc/task is not respecting XDG directories by default

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: UNCONFIRMED ---

[Description Jeff Gazso 2023-04-24 17:04:27 UTC]

As of task-2.6 XDG directories are fully supported but the most recent ebuild does not reflect this. Per the the upstream documentation: in order for that to work out of the box the taskrc file must be relocated to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/task/taskrc.

Also the following lines need to be uncommented in the default taskrc file:

#data.location=~/.local/share/task
#hooks.location=~/.config/task/hooks

I did some testing and it appears that any existing ~/.taskrc takes precedence over one present in ~/.config/task/taskrc, so existing task lists shouldn't appear to go missing after upgrading to an ebuild with this change. But you might want to add an einfo just in case.

[Comment 1 Sam James 2023-04-25 01:05:32 UTC]

(In reply to Jeff Gazso from comment #0)
> As of task-2.6 XDG directories are fully supported but the most recent
> ebuild does not reflect this. Per the the upstream documentation: in order
> for that to work out of the box the taskrc file must be relocated to
> $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/task/taskrc.
> 
> Also the following lines need to be uncommented in the default taskrc file:
> 
> #data.location=~/.local/share/task
> #hooks.location=~/.config/task/hooks
> 

But that's not respecting XDG_* variables, it's just picking new (assumed) locations.

> I did some testing and it appears that any existing ~/.taskrc takes
> precedence over one present in ~/.config/task/taskrc, so existing task lists
> shouldn't appear to go missing after upgrading to an ebuild with this
> change. But you might want to add an einfo just in case.

That part is good though.

[Comment 2 David Denoncin 2023-07-11 17:12:55 UTC]

Sorry for the delay. I'm looking at this now. I guess supporting does not mean that existing installs *should* respect that (see https://github.com/GothenburgBitFactory/taskwarrior/issues/438).

The way to make the transition from the default configuration to the XDG compliant one is well documented in taskrc and looks like it works out of the box: I'll add an einfo so that XDG users know that it is possible.

In the future please link upstream documentation when you refer to it.