What constitutes "user configuration files" in the XDG basedir spec?

Patryk Zawadzki patrys at pld-linux.org
Thu Jan 15 05:02:25 PST 2009


On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 1:48 PM, David Faure <dfaure at trolltech.com> wrote:
> On Thursday 15 January 2009, Sanel Zukan wrote:
>>  Implying previous, they
>> are also non essential and should go with $XDG_CACHE_HOME, just because
>> program generated them.
> No. A cache is something that can be deleted without bad side effects.

Not at all. It's something that can be recreated, possibly taking a
lot of resources, not something unneeded.

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Patryk Zawadzki


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