Re: Standardizing ~/.cache/ and similar things.
On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 08:05:32PM +0100, Alastair McKinstry wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
>
> >On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 07:55 +0200, Sylvain LE GALL wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Hello,
> >>
> >>On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 07:43:43PM -0400, Faré wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>Dear Debian developers,
> >>>
> >>>here is a proposal I submit for inclusion in the debian policy:
> >>>
> >>>PROPOSAL 1: ~/.cache/${package_name}/
> >>>PROPOSAL 2: ~/.etc/${package_name}/
> >>>PROPOSAL 3: ~/.run/ ~/.lib/ ~/.share, etc.
> >>>
> >>I like your idea. But i think that i think it should be better
> >>to follow base-dir specification from freedesktop.org. It gives exactly
> >>the same kind of dirname, but in a more standardized way.
> >>
> >>Take a look at:
> >>http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Standards_2fbasedir_2dspec
> >
> I think the point was that you can set a XDG environmental variable to
> spec ify a cache directory.
> Interesting, but it doesn't solve the problem of telling a backup
> program that a directory is a cache directory. e.g. telling a backup
> program that is
> backing up /home that _multiple_ directories are cache directories;
> setting /home/*/.cache or /home/*/var/cache as directories to be excluded
> in a backup works.
Please see the post of Sam Hocevar, he pointed a specification, that
could be compliant with base-dir spec.
Kind regard
Sylvain
FYI: http://www.brynosaurus.com/cachedir/
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