2009/2/24 Axel Liljencrantz <[email protected]>
> Just to throw my two öre into the discussion - I think both your
> interpretations of the word cache are perfectly reasonable, and if is
> entirely unclear to me from the standard which should be the correct one.
> I'm going to fire off a question to the xdg mailing list and see if I can
> get a clarification, and maybe get them to update the spec as well. We'll
> see.
>
> My opinion on what to do with the patch is this:
>
> If the xdg people give a clear answer, follow it.
> If they don't, don't apply the patch. We don't know the correct answer, and
> in the face of uncertainty, I'd rather take the sure before the unsure.
>
I just checked the xdg mailing list, and they actually had a discussion on
this subject at the beginning of february. My interpretation of their
conclusion is that .cache should be for data that can be regenerated by the
computer, .config should be for actual configuration, and that things like
history, window siszes, etc. should be a separate category (they call it
'state'). There exists no such category today, and until the standard is
updated with such a category, it was my interpretation that state should be
stored with config, not with cache. I sent an email asking them to clarify,
just to be sure.
Jamessan, can you hold on to that patch and resubmit it s/cache/state/ once
we have an updated xdg standard?
Axel
>
> Axel
>
> 2009/2/24 Martin Baehr <[email protected]>
>
> On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 03:16:52PM -0500, James Vega wrote:
>> > I don't know of anything that automatically cleans ~/.cache (like is
>> > commonly done with /tmp).
>>
>> it may not be now, but someone may come up with it, or even i may want
>> to be able to easely wipe the cache to gain space.
>>
>> > I think the intended purpose for such segregation is so that you can
>> > do things like telling your backup program "ignore ~/.cache".
>>
>> i would want my command history to be backed up. :-)
>>
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