On Sun, Jun 09, 2013 at 11:14:03AM +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2013-06-09, Jason McIntyre <[email protected]> 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 > > > > > > hier(7) on a Linux I have access to says this, "Data cached for programs", > which seems reasonable.. >
at last, a cookie winner! ok? jmc Index: hier.7 =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/src/share/man/man7/hier.7,v retrieving revision 1.106 diff -u -r1.106 hier.7 --- hier.7 9 Dec 2012 18:21:44 -0000 1.106 +++ hier.7 9 Jun 2013 12:36:19 -0000 @@ -569,6 +569,8 @@ .Xr authpf 8 . .It backups/ Miscellaneous backup files. +.It cache/ +Data cached for programs. .It crash/ Crash dumps written by .Xr savecore 8 .
