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Linux: Empty environment variables should use defaults #29

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Linux: Empty environment variables should use defaults#29
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@domdfcoding
domdfcoding
opened on Jul 26, 2021

This was originally reported in the appdirs tracker: ActiveState/appdirs#130

The gist is that, per the XDG spec, platformdirs should treat environment variables that are set but empty as if they were unset.

I came across this as part of pypa/pip#10202

pip patches appdirs to work around this: https://github.com/pypa/pip/blob/867bbb00ccb0506095e19a0e111ce06ce71a2495/tools/vendoring/patches/appdirs.patch#L47-L54

There is some prior discussion in pypa/pip#7501 (comment)

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  1. gaborbernat commented on Jul 26, 2021

    @gaborbernat
    gaborbernat
    on Jul 26, 2021
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    Can you open a PR to address it? Thanks!

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  3. papr commented on Jul 28, 2021

    @papr
    papr
    on Jul 28, 2021
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    I will give this a try.

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    Unix: Fallback to default if XDG environment variable is empty

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  5. gaborbernat
    closed this as completedin #30on Jul 29, 2021
  6. gaborbernat
    added a commit that references this issue on Oct 27, 2026

    👷 ci(release): pin github-workflows 6.2.0 (#654)

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