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@@ -18,6 +18,10 @@ the commandline.
 
 The database used is *sqlite3*.
 
+*rss-email* adheres to the *XDG Base Directory specification*. If the variables
+*$XDG_CONFIG_HOME* or *$XDG_DATA_HOME* are not set, the values *$HOME/.config*
+and *$HOME/.local/share*, respectively, will be used as a fallback.
+
 ## OPTIONS
 
 The following options are recognized by *rss-email*:
@@ -73,6 +77,10 @@ If all of these options are given, no configuration fi
 no configuration file is necessary. Missing options will be read from the
 configuration file.
 
+# CONFORMING TO
+
+https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html
+
 # SEE ALSO
 
 *rss-email*(5)
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@@ -15,6 +15,10 @@ Both files can be found in *$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/rss-email
 files in potentially different directories can be specified as command line
 arguments to *rss-email*(1).
 
+*rss-email* adheres to the *XDG Base Directory specification*. If the variable
+*$XDG_CONFIG_HOME* is not set, the value *$HOME/.config* will be used as a
+fallback.
+
 # Configuration file
 
 The configuration file contains all necessary configuration to
@@ -54,6 +58,10 @@ The URLs file is a list of URLs with RSS/Atom feeds se
 Comments are supported only at the beginning of a line and are specified with
 *#*. If a line starts with the comment character it will be ignored completely.
 
+# CONFORMING TO
+
+https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html
+
 # SEE ALSO
 
 *rss-email*(1)