Allow programs to exclude files
Bug #306983 reported by
Michael Terry
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Bug Description
Some applications (like pidgin) may not be using super-sexy XDG cache directories (which we don't even pay attention to right now, but that's another bug). They have directories (e.g. ~/.purple/icons) that they know are stupid to backup.
It would be nice if we had a system-wide folder (using XDG base dirs would let user have them too, if needed) that packages can drop a filelist in to be excluded, either absolute or relative (to $HOME).
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However this works will need to allow for non-predictable locations (like .mozilla/ firefox/ al243lj3. defult/ cache). Looking in some sort of user directory for these exclusion files is probably sufficient.