Bug 904981

Summary:	sys-apps/less should obey the XDG directory specification
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Jeff Gazso <jeff.gazso>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description Jeff Gazso 2023-04-24 20:34:11 UTC

It looks like sys-apps/less puts lesshst and looks for lesskey in the root of the current user's home directory. Appending something the following to /etc/env.d/70less at install time could address this easily enough:

LESSHISTFILE=$XDG_CACHE_HOME/lesshst
LESSKEY=$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/less/lesskey

Comment 1 Sam James archtester

2023-04-24 20:38:37 UTC

Is this backwards compatible?

i.e. If we start setting this, is it going to break for users who have it in their homedir? I suspect it will?

Comment 2 Jeff Gazso 2023-04-24 21:03:44 UTC

Hmm... you might be right. I consider less' history to be disposable but suddenly moving the lesskey (custom key bindings file) might tick some people off. Let me test this a bit.