[Bug 467300] Re: motd-legal files don't respect XDG_CACHE_HOME

[Steve Langasek]

What is the actual use case for making the directory motd.legal-
displayed is written to configurable?  This seems only to introduce the
risk of accidentally displaying the motd multiple times if the target of
$XDG_CACHE_HOME changes (or is unset), and as the file is a 0-byte stamp
file there should be no concerns about impacting the size of disk
backups.  Where do you want this file instead of ~/.cache, and why?

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Title:
  motd-legal files don't respect XDG_CACHE_HOME

Status in “pam” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: base-files

  The files $XDG_CACHE_HOME/motd.legal-displayed and
  $XDG_CACHE_HOME/motd/legal-displayed don't respect the value of
  XDG_CACHE_HOME, they will always be stored in ~/.cache.

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