On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 5:40 PM, Ted Gould <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 2015-02-23 at 16:35 +0100, Oliver Grawert wrote: > > after now about 3 months of constant use of my bq phone, i took a deeper > look on the weekend at the accumulated cache data: > > phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~$ du -hcs .local/share > 2,0G .local/share > > Seems really odd that these are in ~/.local/share ? Shouldn't it be ~/.cache > ? I don't think we should ever autoexpire anything in ~/.local/share because > that's in theory where user data lives.
Yup, that’s https://launchpad.net/bugs/1424726 (just filed it, I thought it had been reported already but apparently not). > should we perhaps have some auto expiration of cache files for (web)apps > here ? > > > In general, I think we should allow apps to maintain their own cache. But > perhaps we could delete the cache directories of apps that haven't been used > in say a week? If we're not running an app, it won't have a chance to clean > up on its own. This should be pretty easy to implement if there's agreement > that we want it, we're already tracking app usage, just about adding a job > to check the usage and clean up. There’s already https://launchpad.net/bugs/1302832 to track this issue. I guess monitoring and trimming apps’ cache directories on top of that wouldn’t hurt. -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
