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List:       freedesktop-xdg
Subject:    Proposal: Add $HOME/.var to the base dir spec
From:       Claes Holmerson <claes () it-slav ! net>
Date:       2004-09-02 22:49:59
Message-ID: Pine.BSO.4.53.0409030043000.22042 () vakttornet ! mynet
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I suggest that a new directory, $HOME/.var, is defined in the XDG Base
directory spec. The following is inspired by the wording in FHS
http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#THEVARHIERARCHY

"$HOME/.var contains variable data files. This includes transient and
other temporary files, for example trash and cache files."

If this is included, I suggest the default of $XDG_CACHE_HOME is changed
from $HOME/.cache to $HOME/.var/cache, to mirror usage of /var/cache

A simple but important step to adoption could be if major distributions
included .var in /etc/skel, so that it is created by default in new home
directories. If the trash spec uses this as well (and actually gets
implemented), it think it stands a good chance to get more broadly adopted

Claes



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