peridot/vendor/github.com/mitchellh/go-homedir
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Major upgrades
Upgrade to Go 1.20.5, Hydra v2 SDK, rules-go v0.44.2 (with proper resolves), protobuf v25.3 and mass upgrade of Go dependencies.
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go-homedir

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 incredibly 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.