Open gerardbosch opened 8 months ago
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Description
The Freedesktop XDG base spec seems not to be totally honored. I explain myself:
Just after installing and running of Bisq for the first time, I noticed that the
~/.local/share/Bisq/
directory took 568 MB. This is specially important because I'm doing an automated cloud backup of my homedir on daily basis, based on XDG spec to only backup user files. So I had to add an exclusion to my backup for this directory after realizing of this, to avoid incurring on extra or unnecessary backup cost.The
XDG_DATA_HOME
should be for user data, but the initial 568 MB are from the Bitcoin network. In essence, this seems not to be user data, but data that can be recreated.From https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html
So I think that the
XDG_CACHE_HOME
dir would be more appropriate for the Bitcoin database, Tor, and/or other non-user data that can be fetched or recreated than the currently usedXDG_DATA_HOME
.Version
1.9.14
Steps to reproduce
Install Bisq from the official DEB and run it for the first time.
Expected behaviour
The
XDG_DATA_HOME
would contain user-specific data.Actual behaviour
The
XDG_DATA_HOME
contains more than 500 MB of that that is not user-specific and can be recreated.Screenshots
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Device or machine
Linux
Additional info
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