Consistent template directories across mac/linux

[jritsema]

I would like to be able to use the same templates path on both mac and linux. Is this possible? It appears that they're different:

mac - $HOME/Library/Application Support/io.datasette.llm/templates/

linux - $HOME/.config/io.datasette.llm/templates/

I noticed LLM_USER_PATH but this appears to change the entire base directory.

The reason for the ask is that I'd like to be able to store my commonly used prompts in my dot files repo (which works on both mac and linux).

Any thoughts/recommendations?

[simonw]

I noticed yesterday that uv changed their policy and stopped using the Library directory, instead switching to the same ~/.cache location on both platforms:

• Migrate to XDG and Linux strategy for macOS directories astral-sh/uv#5806

I'm now considering if that would make sense for LLM, since their reasoning was that Library is better for GUI apps than for terminal application.

Not decided yet. For the moment you may be able to solve this using a symlink?

[jritsema]

Thanks @simonw. Yes, I was planning on symlinking to my dotfiles, but was wanting to avoid using if mac else if linux logic for destination path.