Hi Russ,

> For software run by interactive users, these days I would tend to just
> follow the XDG specification.  It's pretty widely adopted at this
> point and there seems to be slow movement towards it for most
> interactive software.
>
> https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html
>
> This specifies $XDG_CACHE_HOME, falling back on $HOME/.cache if not
> set.

They aren't necessarily interactive users, it isn't desktop software
creating the cache material that backups should skip.  $XDG_CACHE_HOME
won't be used by them.  It's lower level than XDG, more like FHS.  :-)

-- 
Cheers, Ralph.
https://plus.google.com/+RalphCorderoy
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