Ralph Corderoy <[email protected]> writes: >> For software run by interactive users, these days I would tend to just >> follow the XDG specification. It's pretty widely adopted at this >> point and there seems to be slow movement towards it for most >> interactive software. >> >> https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html >> >> This specifies $XDG_CACHE_HOME, falling back on $HOME/.cache if not >> set.
> They aren't necessarily interactive users, it isn't desktop software > creating the cache material that backups should skip. $XDG_CACHE_HOME > won't be used by them. It's lower level than XDG, more like FHS. :-) Right, so the question is whether there's some unfilled design space between /var/cache and $XDG_CACHE_HOME. I personally don't see it, but that may just be a failure of my imagination? -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> _______________________________________________ fhs-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/fhs-discuss
