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[Bast1aan <1887804@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Also run into this issue. I used to exclude cache data from backups by
simply excluding $HOME/.cache . Since the introduction of Snap apps, I
have the troublesome task to exclude every .cache folder per snap app
separately in the backup script. Especially with apps like Spotify it is
necessary for it will otherwise include many GBs of cache data in my
backups I really don't want.

It would be great if indeed Snap would comply to at least one base
XDG_CACHE_HOME for all apps somehow, for instance by putting
subdirectories for cache data per app,like  ~/.cache/snap/chromium
~/.cache/snap/spotify etc.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1887804

Title:
  chromium-browser does not follow XDG base directory specification

Status in Chromium Browser:
  Invalid
Status in chromium-browser package in Ubuntu:
  Opinion

Bug description:
  Currently Chromium does not follow the XDG base directory
  specification which means that the cache and configuration folder
  aren't properly used.

  This causes the issue that it's nearly impossible to properly migrate
  or back up Chromium configuration (between computers) and it makes for
  example mounting cache as tmpfs or wiping it very very difficult.

  I felt those both immensely when trying to migrate my home folder,
  gigabytes of cache in ~/snap/chromium/[id]/.config/chromium/[folder]
  (and ~/snap itself is also not XDG base directory specification
  compliant, shame!).

  There's also the issue that the previous configuration that is located
  properly, isn't migrated by the migrational package.

  In order to fix this bug, it would require making the snap package
  follow the XDG base directory specification.

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