[Pkg-chromium-maint] Bug#674622: Misuse of $XDG_CONFIG_HOME

[Jonathan Nieder]

tags 674622 + upstream
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Hi Michael,

Michael Biebl wrote:

> looking through ~/.config, I noticed that ~/.config/chromium takes up
> 114MB on my system. A lot of those files don't look like configuration
> files but data (extensions)

Agreed.

>                             or cache files (history index).

No, history is not a cache.  Unlike the cache which just saves time
downloading, history allows users to retrace their steps and
determines what pages autocomplete should resolve to in the location
bar.  It is as precious as, say, remembered window locations in
various programs, which also go in $HOME/.config.  In the usual
filesystem hierarchy, it would go under /var/lib, not /var/cache.

Do you know if there are any plans for an XDG_STATE_HOME that could be
kept separate from configuration but considered more precious than
XDG_CACHE_HOME?

Please report this at http://crbug.com/ and let us know the bug number
so we can track it.

Thanks and hope that helps,
Jonathan