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From: Leo Prikler <leo.prikler@student.tugraz.at>
To: ludo@gnu.org
Cc: 43920@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#43920] [SHEPHERD PATCH] shepherd: Move log file to XDG_CACHE_DIR.
Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2020 00:17:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <bbe34857052850f4ee224602320079d38eb837b6.camel@student.tugraz.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87imb2tk3m.fsf@gnu.org

> 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.
That is actually not part of the XDG specification – it merely states,
that non-essential files be put there.  Whether or not one considers
the shepherd log essential is debatable.

You could alternatively put it under $XDG_DATA_HOME.  Some projects
like Xorg seem to do that.  Of course, there always remains the option
of having yet another environment variable or command line parameter
for the placement of the log file.

Regards, Leo





  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-10-23 22:18 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 [this message]
2020-10-24 16:15   ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-10-24 16:51     ` Efraim Flashner
2020-10-26 10:27       ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-11-18 21:35         ` bug#43920: " Ludovic Courtès
2020-10-24 22:58     ` [bug#43920] " Jan Nieuwenhuizen

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