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authorWaldo Bastian <waldo.bastian@intel.com>2003-08-01 20:17:28 +0000
committerWaldo Bastian <waldo.bastian@intel.com>2003-08-01 20:17:28 +0000
commit000b7d33c707441cdb51c7479c9b477c37f6867d (patch)
treee251f0330491618aba677699691ac39621700799
parentc15b9df59efac72ea80fb715bf2a9d7f7afd1bba (diff)
downloadxdg-specs-000b7d33c707441cdb51c7479c9b477c37f6867d.tar.xz
Added $XDG_CACHE_HOME
* Added $XDG_CACHE_HOME
-rw-r--r--basedir/basedir-spec.xml19
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/basedir/basedir-spec.xml b/basedir/basedir-spec.xml
index feb57c0..7a9eec4 100644
--- a/basedir/basedir-spec.xml
+++ b/basedir/basedir-spec.xml
@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@
<article id="index">
<artheader>
<title>XDG Base Directory Specification</title>
- <releaseinfo>Version 0.5</releaseinfo>
- <date>9 June 2003</date>
+ <releaseinfo>Version 0.6</releaseinfo>
+ <date>31 July 2003</date>
<authorgroup>
<author>
<firstname>Waldo</firstname>
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
<sect1 id="basics">
<title>Basics</title>
<para>
- The XDG Base Directory Specification is based on four concepts:
+ The XDG Base Directory Specification is based on the following concepts:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
@@ -63,6 +63,14 @@
by the environment variable <literal>$XDG_CONFIG_DIRS</literal>.
</para>
</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ There is a single base directory relative to which user-specific
+ non-essential (cached) data should be written.
+ This directory is defined by the
+ environment variable <literal>$XDG_CACHE_HOME</literal>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para>
</sect1>
@@ -116,7 +124,10 @@
any of the base directories defined by <literal>$XDG_CONFIG_DIRS</literal>.
</para>
<para>
-
+ <literal>$XDG_CACHE_HOME</literal> defines the base directory relative to
+ which user specific non-essential data files should be stored. If
+ <literal>$XDG_CACHE_HOME</literal> is either not set or empty, a default equal to
+ <literal>$HOME</literal>/.cache should be used.
</para>
</sect1>