On Thu, Sep 25, 2025 at 1:40 PM <[email protected]> wrote: > > Andy Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 25, 2025 at 09:29:32PM +0530, Avinash Sonawane wrote: > > > I noticed that there is a directory named ".cache" at root level. It > > > seems to be created at the time of installation. What is it? > > > > It's one of the XDG standard directories. > > > > https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/latest/ > > > > > Who has created it? > > > > Probably put there as part of user creation but all apps that need to > > use it will also (re-)create it if you delete it. > > I'm confused. It's part of a user's directories, and defaults to > $HOME/.cache so surely it should be under /root not under / ? > > The OP could test it by setting an explict value for $XDG_CACHE_HOME in > root's environment and seeing if that makes any difference.
I was thinking something similar... Sudo or another program scrubbed the environment. $HOME became empty, so "$HOME/.cache" became "/.cache". > > > Seems to be a bug in some package which has created it... > > > > "Everything I don't understand is a bug" Words of wisdom. Jeff
