How to prevent the game from creating /home/user/GNUstep and oolite-saves directories?

[gipi]

I've moved the game to ~/Downloads/OOLITE (I keep all games in that folder), and it runs fine, it just creates nigh empty folders in my home folder when I start it up, is there a way to stop this? I managed to prevent it from creating ~/GNUstep/Library/DTDs by editing the check in the oolite-wrapper file, but I can't figure out how to prevent it from creating the other two.

[Cholmondely]

Welcome to the dreaded boards! Just hope that you enjoy the game (if not the folders) as much as the rest of us!

No idea, sorry, but one of our beatific and benevolent boffins should be able to lend a hand...

[hiran]

I'm for sure not a boffing and far from beatific. And what I mention now is not based on knowledge but on what I see in my milky crystal bulb...
But I have seen exactly the behaviour you mention when running Oolite on Linux.

Oolite has been created for the Apple Mac and then ported to other platforms. That means the developers chose a framework available on multiple platforms so the codebase stays platform agnostic. So they decided to build Oolite on top of GNUStep.
It is baked in, you cannot remove it without big fuss.

So the question you raise could be translated into "can GNUStep be configured to not create these default folders?" or "how can I tell GNUStep where to store data?". Unfortunately I do not have an answer to that. Maybe someone else on this forum, or someone from the GNUStep mailing list can help.