Download plugins to ~/.local/share/packer instead of ~/.config/packer

[heroin-moose]

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Description

Currently packer init downloads plugins to ~/.config/packer. However, this directory is intended for configuration files, not platform-specific executables as per XDG Base Directory Specification. Please consider using ~/.local/share/packer for this.