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 _______________________________________________ fhs-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/fhs-discuss
