location of cache dir

[Nat Lanza]

Love <lha at stacken.kth.se> writes:

> Since /usr might not be avaible at boot-time and later be mounted read-only
> on all systems.

Well, sure, but if your binaries are in /usr, then that cache in /var
really isn't useful without /usr mounted anyway.

The Right Thing is probably just having both '--prefix=' and
'--with-cache-dir=' configuration options, with the cache-dir option
defaulting to somewhere under $prefix. Go for the common case, but
make it easy to adapt to the less common ones.


--nat

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