Registry in /var/lib - shoudl be /var/cache

[David Schleef]

On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 11:16:50PM +0200, Loïc Minier wrote:
>  I just noticed that GStreamer is configured with:
>     --with-cachedir=/var/lib/gstreamer/0.8
> 
>  On my system, this holds compreg.xml and registry.xml, both seemingly
>  not very valuable.
> 
>  Is there any historic reason to have these things in /var/lib instead
>  of /var/cache?

/var/cache is only for things that are autogenerated and will not
cause a problem if they are thrown away.  Causing all gstreamer apps
to stop working doesn't qualify.



dave...

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