On Wed, 2005-10-05 at 09:14 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le jeudi 22 septembre 2005 ? 23:00 -0400, Matthias Clasen a ?crit : > > So this means that the file format is not endianness- and > > platform-independent, but contains enough information to load it on > > other platforms ? > > In this case, this is a serious violation of the Filesystem Hierarchy > Standard. The cache files lie in /usr/share, in which case they should > be strictly platform-independent. > > Would it be possible to generate a system-wide cache and to put it > somewhere in /var/cache instead? The important thing is that the same cache file can be used across platforms. Whether that is done by storing the data in a platform-independent way, or by storing multiple platform-dependent copies of the same data in different sections of the file shouldn't make any difference.
