On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 7:12 AM, Vadim Zhukov <persg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2013/6/9 Otto Moerbeek <o...@drijf.net>
>
>> On Sun, Jun 09, 2013 at 10:10:06AM +0100, Jason McIntyre wrote:
>>
>> > On Sun, Jun 09, 2013 at 05:06:01AM -0400, Jiri B 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?
>> > >
>> > > Ahh, on other machine there's also 'cups' and 'libvirt' :)
>> > >
>> > > jirib
>> >
>> > in that case my diff is definitely wrong. so i need a general
>> > description of what /var/cache is for.
>> >
>> > jmc
>>
>> A cache holds stuff the is relativey expensive to recompute. If the
>> data is thrown away, it can be regenerated.
>>
>
> Is there any real difference with subdir under /var/tmp then?

/etc/daily seems to prune files from /var/tmp based on whether they've
been accessed in the last 7 days

i would first trigger manual prunes to /var/cache and see how programs react

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