On Thu, Sep 25, 2025 at 05:23:18PM +0000, Andy Smith wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Sep 25, 2025 at 09:29:32PM +0530, Avinash Sonawane wrote: > > I noticed that there is a directory named ".cache" at root level. It > > seems to be created at the time of installation. What is it? > > It's one of the XDG standard directories. > > https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/latest/ Yes, but this is $HOME/.cache. Not /.cache, as the OP wrote. It looks like (a) $HOME was at some point empty and (b) whatever application it was, it had write permissions to / > > > Who has created it? > > Probably put there as part of user creation but all apps that need to > use it will also (re-)create it if you delete it. > > > Seems to be a bug in some package which has created it... > > "Everything I don't understand is a bug" Sarcasm as debugging technique is an interesting aspect, yes ;-P Cheers -- t
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