From debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Wed Feb 24 16:36:30 2016 Received: (at 22707) by debbugs.gnu.org; 24 Feb 2016 21:36:30 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44293 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1aYh6k-0002qr-Jx for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 24 Feb 2016 16:36:30 -0500 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:41076) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1aYh6j-0002qe-6X for 22707@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 24 Feb 2016 16:36:29 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aYh6a-00054d-MY for 22707@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 24 Feb 2016 16:36:23 -0500 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on eggs.gnu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=disabled version=3.3.2 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:51980) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aYh6a-00054T-Ji; Wed, 24 Feb 2016 16:36:20 -0500 Received: from reverse-83.fdn.fr ([80.67.176.83]:40616 helo=pluto) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1aYh6Z-00077l-Uq; Wed, 24 Feb 2016 16:36:20 -0500 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) To: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: bug#22707: IBus relies on possibly outdated ~/.cache/ibus/bus/registry References: <87bn7g5tww.fsf@elephly.net> X-URL: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ X-Revolutionary-Date: 6 =?utf-8?Q?Vent=C3=B4se?= an 224 de la =?utf-8?Q?R?= =?utf-8?Q?=C3=A9volution?= X-PGP-Key-ID: 0x3D9AEBB5 X-PGP-Key: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ludovic.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 3CE4 6455 8A84 FDC6 9DB4 0CFB 090B 1199 3D9A EBB5 X-OS: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2016 22:36:17 +0100 In-Reply-To: <87bn7g5tww.fsf@elephly.net> (Ricardo Wurmus's message of "Tue, 16 Feb 2016 20:36:47 +0100") Message-ID: <87r3g1dc4u.fsf@gnu.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-Spam-Score: -5.0 (-----) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: 22707 Cc: 22707@debbugs.gnu.org X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: -5.0 (-----) Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > I have an annoying little problem with IBus. IBus creates a binary > registry in ~/.cache/ibus/bus on first start(?) which contains the full > paths to store items such as > > /gnu/store/k3r...-ibus-1.5.11/libexec/ibus-dconf GIMP has a similar problem for files in ~/.gimp-2.8, though it seems to automatically regenerate them or something. > Should we prevent a registry in the =E2=80=9C.cache=E2=80=9D directory to= be used and > try to make IBus look for a registry that could be generated as part of > generating a new profile generation? Either that or we change the IBus code to detect stale caches and get rid of them. This might even be acceptable upstream. WDYT? Ludo=E2=80=99.