On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 01:31:56PM +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > The Linux FHS says "The application must always be able to recover from > manual deletion of these files (generally because of a disk space > shortage)." — [...] > When it goes to install these, e.g. `pacman -Su', it checks dependencies > and then assumes that all of those files will remain for the duration of > the installation, which can be quite a while. Am I right in thinking > this fails to meet the FHS? Installation goes awry when something is > deleted partway through. (Yes, I found out the hard way. :-)
I think the FHS is basically just writing what is generally expected practice of _any_ cache: it's possible (even expected) for there to be cache misses, and the application should be able to deal with that. If that's not the desired behavior, it's probably better to use some other location. -- Matthew Miller [email protected] <http://mattdm.org/> Fedora Project Leader [email protected] <http://fedoraproject.org/> _______________________________________________ fhs-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/fhs-discuss
