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[Duncan]

Duncan posted on Fri, 28 Oct 2011 17:38:56 +0000 as excerpted:

> Kevin Krammer posted on Fri, 28 Oct 2011 13:46:29 +0200 as excerpted:
> 
>> On Friday, 2011-10-28, Duncan wrote:
>>> Here, [$KDEVARCACHE is] pointed at $HOME/config/cache
>> 
>> You could point it to $HOME/.cache which would then make it the same
>> directory as $XDG_CACHE_HOME
> 
> Thanks.  It looks as if I don't have anything using XDG_CACHE_HOME yet,
> so that hadn't come up, but the pointer is useful as I don't like:
> 
> a) dot dirs (I don't like stuff hiding on me!).
> 
> b) anything located directly in $HOME (which is why they're using a dot-
> dir in the first place, to avoid cluttering the $HOME listing).
> 
> So now I have something else to point at $HOME/config/cache. =:^)

Following up on old messages I had marked to look at later...


Thanks again, Kevin.  I had several things in ~/.cache, the default for 
$XDG_CACHE_HOME if it's unset, and after setting that var, all of them 
switched to the location I pointed the variable at except for one:

yawp, the "yet another weather plasmoid".  Unfortunately, it appears to 
be hard-coded to use ~/.cache/yawp. =:^(

I was able to solve that using a symlink... which works to get the actual 
cache all in the same spot... but doesn't get rid of the ugly .cache 
entry in $HOME. =:^(

So I guess I figure out where it's coming from (I think kdelook), and 
file a request with the author... and/or patch in my own path (easy 
enough on gentoo, just drop the patchfile in a particular patch-dir and 
the patch should be applied to updates automatically).

-- 
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and if you use the program, he is your master."  Richard Stallman

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