XDG variables not set?

[sicr0]

Hi,
After reading the XDG Base Directory Specification, I realized that, at least in my system (don't know if maybe I've misconfigured something), the $XDG_CONFIG_HOME variable and co. aren't set by default. Is it normal?
Does Gentoo not follow the specification, or is there maybe a package that I'm missing?

[Ionen]

As it says in your link:

[Banana]

Not setting $XDG_CONFIG_HOME results in a default: https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html

If you really want to change it: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-859392-start-0.html

Edit: Ionen was faster
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[sicr0]

Yea, I know that it should default to $HOME/.config.

That's why it caught my eye that it wasn't the case on my system.

Do you happen to know a possible reason why?

[Hu]

All compliant applications should treat it as $HOME/.config is not otherwise set, so there is no reason to explicitly set it to the same value as the default. Gentoo presumably considers the default path acceptable, so there is no need to set it to something else.

[Ionen]

It is the default to be used if unset, so there's nothing strange about it being unset ("if not set or empty" would have no meaning if it was always set).

For example, in a shell script you could read this variable as:

[sicr0]

Ionen, so, if I type echo $XDG_CONFIG_HOME I shouldn't expect for it to be set. It's the programs who support it as default, not distribution.

Did I understood correctly?

[Ionen]

Yes, if following the standard then programs are supposed to know to use ~/.config themselves if they're not specifically told to use anything else.