Confused by the `config init --dest-dir` functionality

[pillo79]

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Describe the request

As I understand there are 3 ways to initialize the CLI config:

• arduino-cli config init will initialize the config in ~/.arduino15/arduino-cli.yaml and use ~/.arduino15 as data store;
• arduino-cli config init --dest-file cfg.yaml will initialize the config in cfg.yaml and use ~/.arduino15 as data store;
• arduino-cli config init --dest-dir cfg will create a cfg folder, initialize the config in cfg/arduino-cli.yaml and STILL use ~/.arduino15 as data store.

The first way is the generic default. The second is a variant that allows you to have a different CLI config but share the package repos. The third works exactly like the second but creates an (otherwise unused) directory. I was really surprised by this as I thought it would initialize a fully separate CLI environment. That is really useful for CI/testing purposes.

What is the use case of the config init --dest-dir option? Can this be edited to automatically point directories.data and directories.download to the specified folder?

Describe the current behavior

Currently to achieve a separate environment, the config has to be initialized and then the directories have to be manually set via arduino-cli config set commands.

Arduino CLI version

0.35.2

Operating system

Linux

Operating system version

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Additional context

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