On 2013-06-09, Jiri B <ji...@devio.us> 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?

To me, "db" implies things which are "precious" i.e. should be
kept/backed-up, whereas "cache" is things which you would normally
want to preserve (so /var/tmp isn't appropriate as this gets cleared
automatically) but are less important.

> Where would it then end? Including /var/lib and other Linux-specific
> dirs?

Linux's /var/lib is pretty much equivalent to our /var/db.

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