Re: [Evolution] Settings in $HOME/.cache/evolution

[Ralf Mardorf <silver bullet zoho com>]

On Mon, 2021-02-01 at 11:24 -0500, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> On Sat, 2021-01-30 at 19:46 +0100, Ángel wrote:
> > lOn 2021-01-30 at 18:28 +0000, Douglas Summers via evolution-list
> > wrote:
> > > I've been moving most of my app cache directories to /tmp (tmpfs)
> > > so that they're cleaned on a reboot. This works great for
> > Although, I should say it seems a bad idea to do that, 
>
> +1   This is a bad idea that does not solve an actual problem.

tmpfs is quite nice for some purposes, OTOH I often run out of RAM when
compiling software such as Firefox and sometimes even when compiling a
kernel in tmpfs.

IMO nowadays there are tendencies to overdo tmpfs usage. Reminds me of

"Warning: Usage of psd in overlayfs mode (in particular,
psd-overlay-helper) may lead to privilege escalation." -
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Profile-sync-daemon#What_is_overlayfs_mode