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[Olivier Tilloy <olivier.tilloy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 5:40 PM, Ted Gould <ted@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 2015-02-23 at 16:35 +0100, Oliver Grawert wrote:
>
> after now about 3 months of constant use of my bq phone, i took a deeper
> look on the weekend at the accumulated cache data:
>
> phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~$ du -hcs .local/share
> 2,0G .local/share
>
> Seems really odd that these are in ~/.local/share ? Shouldn't it be ~/.cache
> ? I don't think we should ever autoexpire anything in ~/.local/share because
> that's in theory where user data lives.

Yup, that’s https://launchpad.net/bugs/1424726 (just filed it, I
thought it had been reported already but apparently not).


> should we perhaps have some auto expiration of cache files for (web)apps
> here ?
>
>
> In general, I think we should allow apps to maintain their own cache. But
> perhaps we could delete the cache directories of apps that haven't been used
> in say a week? If we're not running an app, it won't have a chance to clean
> up on its own. This should be pretty easy to implement if there's agreement
> that we want it, we're already tracking app usage, just about adding a job
> to check the usage and clean up.

There’s already https://launchpad.net/bugs/1302832 to track this
issue. I guess monitoring and trimming apps’ cache directories on top
of that wouldn’t hurt.