Comment 38 for bug 1643706

Stéphane Gourichon says it much better in fewer words than I've been able to in https://askubuntu.com/a/1040278/34154:

> @ZygmuntKrynicki Thanks for popping in and explaining that the code does what you intend. I respectfully and totally disagree with what you write. Hard-coding paths is very poor practice and cannot be meaningfully justified, even in the name of security. It's just basic inflexibility.