What's the perfect (OS independent) way of storing filepaths ?

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

In message <010fefe5$0$20657$c3e8da3 at news.astraweb.com>, Steven D'Aprano
wrote:

> Putting preferences files in the user's top level directory is horribly
> inconvenient for the user.

There is a way around this: redefine the HOME environment variable to be the
directory where you want the dotfiles to end up.