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debian my ass..

[ ] [ ] by marc ammann @ 06.03.2007 02:17 CEST
well, I just had a nice experience with debian. besides many other things in debian which are really just crap, I found a hidden feature today..

first, read this..

5.5 /var/cache : Application cache data
5.5.1 Purpose
/var/cache is intended for cached data from applications. 
Such data is locally generated as a result of time-consuming I/O or calculation. 
The application must be able to regenerate or restore the data. Unlike /var/spool, 
the cached files can be deleted without data loss. The data must remain valid between 
invocations of the application and rebooting the system.

Files located under /var/cache may be expired in an application specific manner, 
by the system administrator, or both. The application must always be able to recover 
from manual deletion of these files (generally because of a disk space shortage). 
No other requirements are made on the data format of the cache directories.

well, since I kind of know these rules by heart, I assumed, that at least there won't be any system critical data in /var/cache.. (damn guys of the holy-crappy-debian: do you even see it? CACHE!)
surprise surprise, I moved my /var today because of space problems, and yes, you guess right, I did not copy /var/cache.. why should I?
Now, where is my /var/cache/debonf folder and files?! hmm.. let's regenerate it.. oh, wait. from where?

there seems not to be a way to recover these files.. feel free to comment if you know a way.

I copied it from an other debian machine, actually an ubuntu machine and I hope it will work out for the moment..

well done, debian, well done..
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