Use xdg basedir spec on linux

[scarGarcaAmor]

BPO	40215
Nosy	@merwok, @dstufft

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labels = ['type-feature', 'library']
title = 'Use xdg basedir spec on linux'
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[scarGarcaAmor]

https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html

TLDR; For config files like .pypirc, configuration should be in the $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/python/

[merwok]

Thanks for the report, but at this stage of the distutils lifecycle (mostly unmaintained, may be removed from stdlib) I don’t think such a change would be useful. Packaging guides recommend other tools, such as twine or flit, that don’t use this config file.