[RFC] perf-cache command interface design

[Hagen Paul Pfeifer]

On 10 November 2014 13:50, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:

> # env | grep XDG | wc -l
> 0
>
> Which renders it useless crap in my book.
>
> I agree on the .debug name being somewhat generic, also, it would be:
> man 8 file-hierarchy, but that too fails:
>
> $ man file-hierarchy
> No manual entry for file-hierarchy

Ok, but then we are not even consistent to ourself, see "perf: Add
support for full Intel event lists" which download already to
$XDG_CACHE_HOME [1]. It is not useless to agree on one standard.
Reinvent the place where caches and configurations are stored again
and again is somewhat stupid. E.g. ~/.cache (or $XDG_CACHE_HOME) can
be deleted without problems, ~/.config not, and so on. Someone
(Rusty?) thought about this several years ago, IMHO we should give at
least a try.

Hagen

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/7/30/686