On Sun, Jan 16, 2022 at 09:07:13PM +0000, ghe2001 wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 > > > > ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ > On Sunday, January 16, 2022 1:51 PM, <tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote: > > > On Sun, Jan 16, 2022 at 08:25:25PM +0000, ghe2001 wrote: > > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > > Hash: SHA256 > > > In my home dir, there's a dir called .cache/mesa_shader_cache. > > > > This looks like some cache data for the Mesa [1] 3D graphics rendering > > library. > > Looking at your link to Wikipedia, it does indeed seem to have something to do with Mesa (there's a paragraph in there about 'shader'). But I've never heard of Mesa, and I certainly didn't install it. > > This sounds like one vote for deletion. Or maybe .8 votes :-) I'd check dependencies first. Some of the mesa libraries are pretty basic infrastructure for many a program making use of your GPU for rendering. This is possibly one of those unsung heros working down there in the boiler room where's hot and while nobody notices :) Cheers -- t
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