Re: Huge cache dirs in $HOME

[Sam Hocevar <sam@zoy.org>]

On Wed, Mar 14, 2007, Pierre THIERRY wrote:

> I just discovered today that some packages can store pretty huge cache
> data in my $HOME, and found that rather problematic. When I backup my
> home, I don't want to waste backup space or time to do it, because I
> have to check what eats space and tell if it's cache data.
> 
> Couldn't such packages, like beagle and tracker, just use the standard
> directory for that purpose, like specified in XDG's basedir?

   FYI, There was a (underused and rather clumsy) freedesktop proposal
to tell backup utilities not to backup cache files:

  http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2004-August/004306.html

-- 
Sam.