On Sun, Jun 09, 2013 at 10:10:06AM +0100, Jason McIntyre wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 09, 2013 at 05:06:01AM -0400, Jiri B wrote:
> > >Sorry but this seems to bizzare to make 'cache' appropriate
> > >subdir in /var just because of one specific tool. Wouldn't be
> > >better to customize it to use /var/db/fontconfig?
> >
> > Ahh, on other machine there's also 'cups' and 'libvirt' :)
> >
> > jirib
>
> in that case my diff is definitely wrong. so i need a general
> description of what /var/cache is for.
>
> jmc
A cache holds stuff the is relativey expensive to recompute. If the
data is thrown away, it can be regenerated.
A db holds data that you generally do not want to throw away.
-Otto
