On Friday 15 January 2010 20:55:18 Sebastian Pipping wrote: > On 01/16/10 02:45, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > the better idea > > though would be to split your stuff along the proper lines. > > > > cache files = /var/cache/layman/ > > as i said: it's not a "normal" cache. you said but didnt explain why it's "special". these are merely caches of external overlays and xml caches of overlay lists. if people are concerned with pining a version, then they should be extracting to their own overlay since a mere sync is going to drop it (just like /usr/portage/). if you want to call it state data, then it'd be /var/lib/layman/ ... -mike