ZK>>> How about to be more classical and honor at least
 ZK>>> ~/.gossiped.yml (and $XDG_CONFIG_HOME as a bonus?
 ZK>>> https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/base
 ZK>>> dir-spec -0.6.h tml)

 O>> I think dot files in the home dir root (~/) should be not
 O>> encouraged anymore. But I also feel
 O>> ~/.config/gossiped/gossiped.yml would be the right place
 O>> for the config file.

 ZK> That is the default XDG path, IIUC, right?

I think it is, at least this path is used on Debian / Ubuntu. I meant it 
synonymously for the XDG path.


 
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