Subject: [bug#43920] [SHEPHERD PATCH] shepherd: Move log file to XDG_CACHE_DIR.

From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2020 11:27:53 +0100

Hi,

Efraim Flashner <[email-masked]> skribis:

> On October 24, 2020 4:15:33 PM UTC, "Ludovic Courtès" <[email-masked]> 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’.