Le mercredi 05 octobre 2005 ? 09:01 -0400, Matthias Clasen a ?crit : > On Wed, 2005-10-05 at 09:14 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > 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. Sorry, but I strongly disagree here. You cannot call such a file "platform-independent". This goes completely against the spirit of the FHS, and against the Unix way of doing things. Will you tell me how, in a real-world configuration, you're going to automate cache generation on a /usr/share directory shared between several platforms? This approach is perfectly suitable for the user-generated file in $HOME, but it isn't acceptable for the system directories. Even the fonts.cache-1 approach is quite questionable, as you always end up with stale cache files not registered by the packaging system and never removed. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette /\./\ : :' : josselin.mouette@xxxxxxxxxxxx `. `' joss@xxxxxxxxxx `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom
