Source: unburden-home-dir
Section: x11
Priority: extra
Maintainer: Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org>
Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7.0.50~), devscripts, libconfig-file-perl, libfile-touch-perl, libfile-slurp-perl
Standards-Version: 3.9.1
Homepage: http://wiki.phys.ethz.ch/readme/application_cache_files
Vcs-Git: http://git.phys.ethz.ch/unburden-home-dir.git
Vcs-Browser: http://git.phys.ethz.ch/?p=unburden-home-dir.git

Package: unburden-home-dir
Architecture: all
Depends: x11-common, ${perl:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, libconfig-file-perl, libfile-touch-perl, libfile-rsync-perl
Enhances: x11-common
Suggests: corekeeper, autotrash
Description: Remove or move cache files automatically from user's home
 unburden-home-dir allows users to move cache files from browsers,
 etc. off their home directory, i.e. on a local harddisk or tmpfs and
 replace them with a symbolic link to the new location (e.g. on /tmp/
 or /scratch/) upon login. Optionally the contents of the directories
 and files can be removed instead of moved.
 .
 This is helpful in at least three cases:
 .
 The idea giving case are big workstation setups where $HOME is on NFS
 and all those caches put an unnecessary burden (hence the name) on
 the file server since caching over NFS doesn't have the best
 performance and may clog the NFS server, too.
 .
 The second case are devices with small disk space but a lot of RAM as
 seen often on boxes with flash disks or early netbooks, especially
 the EeePC, where configurations with 4GB disk space and 2GB RAM are
 not seldom. In this case you want to move off cache files, etc. to
 some tmpfs filesystem, e.g. /tmp/.
 .
 The third case is to keep those files in places where they don't get
 backed up and so don't take up backup disk space.
 .
 The package also contains an Xsession hook which calls this script on
 X login for every user. But by default no files or directories are
 configured to be moved elsewhere, so nothing will happen
 automatically without configuration.
