Re: /.cache directory

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Subject: Re: /.cache directory
From: Anssi Saari <anssi.saari@debian-user.mail.kapsi.fi>
Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2025 13:45:24 +0300
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Henrik Ahlgren <pablo@seestieto.com> writes:

> I have noticed the /.cache directory present on two of my machines that
> are running desktop environments. It appears to be absent from my
> headless server machines. The timestamp indicates it is from 2023, so I
> assume it was created during bookworm. The directories are empty.

I also have a /.cache on my Debian laptop running KDE. It's dated
February 12, 2022 which is probably when I installed Debian and includes
one empty directory called appstream.

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