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#22707 IBus relies on possibly outdated ~/.cache/ibus/bus/registry

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Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> 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 “.cache” 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’.




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