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Subject: Re: Cache question
From: Benjamin Meyer <ben () meyerhome ! net>
Date: 2005-01-29 17:15:25
Message-ID: 200501291715.25102.ben () meyerhome ! net
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On Friday 28 January 2005 7:41 pm, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Friday 28 January 2005 11:15, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote:
> > What's the general policy about caches? Should they all go into
> > .kde/cache, or there're cases where the cache can be put into the apps
> > directory?
>
> $KDEHOME/cache didn't always exist and so some apps put their caches in
> their appdir. this is now incorrect and the cache directory as returned by
> KStandardDirs should always be used. usually this is just a symlink into
> /var or /tmp, but gives a standard location for it ...
So please open bug reports against applications that have cache files, but
store them in their apps dir and not the KStandardDirs cache directory.
-Benjamin Meyer
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