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Package: go-github-com-mitchellh-go-homedir @ 1.0.0-0.ae18d6b

Synopsis

Go library for detecting and expanding the user's home directory without cgo

Description

This is a Go library for detecting the user's home directory without the use of cgo, so the library can be used in cross-compilation environments.

Usage is simple, just call homedir.Dir() to get the home directory for a user, and homedir.Expand() to expand the ~ in a path to the home directory.

Why not just use os/user? The built-in os/user package requires cgo on Darwin systems. This means that any Go code that uses that package cannot cross compile. But 99% of the time the use for os/user is just to retrieve the home directory, which we can do for the current user without cgo. This library does that, enabling cross-compilation.

Home page
https://github.com/mitchellh/go-homedir
Location
gnu/packages/golang.scm (line: 4818, column: 4)
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