Re: /.cache directory

To: Avinash Sonawane <rootkea@gmail.com>
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: /.cache directory
From: Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2025 22:29:50 -0400
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On Thu, Sep 25, 2025 at 9:35 PM Avinash Sonawane <rootkea@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> [...]
> > I was thinking something similar... Sudo or another program scrubbed
> > the environment. $HOME became empty, so "$HOME/.cache" became
> > "/.cache".
>
> And that's an expected behavior? Not a bug?

I tried to explain where "/.cache" may have come from.  I did not say
it was correct or not a bug.

Jeff

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