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Re: Huge cache dirs in $HOME



On Wednesday 14 March 2007, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le mercredi 14 mars 2007 à 09:45 +0100, Bernhard R. Link a écrit :
> > Against those grotesque
> > .fonts.cache-1 files (which are not only cache that should not be in
> > /home, but also system dependent thus even more do not belong there)
> > running fc-cache as root on all hosts regulary helps.
>
> The system font cache is now located in /var/cache/fontconfig. The user
> font cache is for fonts in ~/.fonts, and I fail to see why it should be
> outside ~.

the original suggestion was to have everything follow the freedesktop 
basedir spec for the caching location, note that this spec defaults to the 
location $HOME/.cache (or whatever the $XDG_CACHE_HOME env var points to)
-- 
Cheers, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)

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