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From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>
Cc: Leo Prikler <leo.prikler@student.tugraz.at>,
	43920@debbugs.gnu.org,
	"Jan \(janneke\) Nieuwenhuizen" <janneke@gnu.org>
Subject: [bug#43920] [SHEPHERD PATCH] shepherd: Move log file to XDG_CACHE_DIR.
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2020 11:27:53 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pn55cmdy.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5115DA89-FC2F-4B00-8F3B-D461908E1775@flashner.co.il> (Efraim Flashner's message of "Sat, 24 Oct 2020 16:51:20 +0000")

Hi,

Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il> skribis:

> On October 24, 2020 4:15:33 PM UTC, "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:

[...]

>>>> The previous location wasn’t perfect, but the proposed one isn’t
>>>> great
>>>> either: one can generally assume “rm -rf ~/.cache” won’t lose
>>>> anything
>>>> that cannot be reconstructed, and the log is something that cannot be
>>>> reconstructed.

[...]

> I don't think it's really data, it's not like it belongs in something/share. As another data point keybase writes its (verbose) logs in .cache/keybase.

To me the question whether it’s OK to lose the log.  In a way, storing
the log in ~/.cache akin to storing it in /tmp.

If we agree on that, then we have the choice between ~/.local/share
aka. XDG_DATA_HOME (like Xorg does), or maybe using ~/.local/var/log or
something similar that goes beyond XDG?

Thoughts?

Naming directories is hard.  :-)

Ludo’.




  reply	other threads:[~2020-10-26 10:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-11  9:20 [bug#43920] [SHEPHERD PATCH] shepherd: Move log file to XDG_CACHE_DIR Efraim Flashner
2020-10-22 14:23 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-10-23 22:17 ` Leo Prikler
2020-10-24 16:15   ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-10-24 16:51     ` Efraim Flashner
2020-10-26 10:27       ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2020-11-18 21:35         ` bug#43920: " Ludovic Courtès
2020-10-24 22:58     ` [bug#43920] " Jan Nieuwenhuizen

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