~/.cache

Lars Noodén lars.nooden at gmail.com
Tue Oct 1 15:40:52 UTC 2013


Which aspect of LXDE creates the ~/.cache directory?  /etc/skel creates
these first three:

$ ls -a1
.
..
.bash_logout
.bashrc
.profile

But then these others are added when LXDE is run the first time:

$ ls -a1
.
..
.bash_logout
.bashrc
.cache
.config
.dbus
Desktop
.dmrc
Documents
Downloads
.gconf
.local
Music
Pictures
.profile
Public
Templates
Videos
.Xauthority
.xscreensaver
.xsession-errors

The reason I ask is so that the creation process can be changed to add a
CACHEDIR.TAG file [1] which can be used by GNU tar [2] to automatically
exclude that directory if the user so wishes.

Regards,
/Lars

[1]	The CACHEDIR.TAG file is explained here:
	http://www.brynosaurus.com/cachedir/spec.html

[2]	Don't bother looking in the manual page for tar(1)  It is
	incomplete and does not explain the CACHEDIR.TAG file.
	http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_node/exclude.html



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