On Wed, 2020-02-26 at 15:24 +0100, Benjamin Berg wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, 2020-02-26 at 15:14 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: > > Flatpak'ed applications also use a different cache directory, like: > > $ export | grep CACHE > > declare -x XDG_CACHE_HOME="/home/hadess/.var/app/<app-id>/cache" > > > > I'd say that it might better left well alone, and have something > > like > > Baobab better signal what each directory is/which application it > > belongs to, to clean it up. > > This specification change would only affect the $XDG_CACHE_HOME as > set > at login time by pam_systemd (i.e. ~/.cache). > > So in principle, Flatpak'ed applications are not affected at all. > However, the logical extension of this proposal would be that > appropriate configurations are shipped inside each Flatpak. Then we > also have a cleanup mechanism there that does not depend on the > application to be run regularly. > > I had not thought about that yet. I could imagine Flatpak collecting > the information and doing the simple re-write and dropping it into > ~/.config/tmpfiles.d or $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/tmpfiles.d at login time. > And > Flatpak itself could again ship a default to clean .var/app/*/cache > by > default.
In this case, an opt-in would be less surprising than an opt-out. _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
