On 01/16/10 05:39, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Friday 15 January 2010 20:55:18 Sebastian Pipping wrote: >> On 01/16/10 02:45, Mike Frysinger wrote: >>> the better idea >>> though would be to split your stuff along the proper lines. >>> >>> cache files = /var/cache/layman/ >> >> as i said: it's not a "normal" cache. > > you said but didnt explain why it's "special". these are merely caches of > external overlays and xml caches of overlay lists.
to me cache is something that speeds up operation but does not hold content of real value. with layman overlay "checkouts" that's a bit different. let's say a host overlay is taken offline: now the layman copy is my only source. Page [1] describes /var/cache as "Long term data which can be regenerated". so to me it's not a cache because there might be data in there that we cannot regenerate. sebastian [1] http://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/filesystem/index.html
