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

[Jonathan Nieder]

Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> 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.

Stupid me.  I just removed the history index and it looks like it can be
recovered from history, just like both you and common sense suggested.

In other words: I was talking nonsense and completely missed your point.
Sorry for the noise.

[...]
> 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?

I would still be interested in this, of course. :)

Thanks,
Jonathan