CHIRP

I noticed that chirp creates a ~/.chirp configuration directory. Is there a setting
somewhere to override where this is held? I've looked at the docs and faq but
haven't seen any.

Over the past decade or so linux applications FIRST started supporting environment
variables to point to the configuration directory for the app. LATER they started
using the $XDG_CONFIG_HOME directory tree

Either one of these would be a great addition to the application

Most modern applications adhere to the XDG BASE DIRECTORY SPECIFICATION

Allowing users to set $XDG_CONFIG_HOME and the program then places it's config
directory under this directory - all major Linux distributions I think support
this as well as all the derivatives from them.

This allows the user to keep his home directory clean and less cluttered.

Basically the application checks to see if

$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/ exists and uses
it in preference to* ~/*
loading the configuration from the appropriate directory

If you are unfamiliar details can be found here: * https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html*

It shouldn't be a big job to add but would tidy up the home directories of Linux users

thanks

ian