Re: strange file query

From	<tomas@tuxteam.de>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: strange file query
Date	2022-01-17 07:30 +0100
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On Sun, Jan 16, 2022 at 09:07:13PM +0000, ghe2001 wrote:
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> On Sunday, January 16, 2022 1:51 PM, <tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:
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> > On Sun, Jan 16, 2022 at 08:25:25PM +0000, ghe2001 wrote:
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> > > In my home dir, there's a dir called .cache/mesa_shader_cache.
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> > This looks like some cache data for the Mesa [1] 3D graphics rendering
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> Looking at your link to Wikipedia, it does indeed seem to have something to do with Mesa (there's a paragraph in there about 'shader').  But I've never heard of Mesa, and I certainly didn't install it.
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> This sounds like one vote for deletion.  Or maybe .8 votes :-)

I'd check dependencies first. Some of the mesa libraries are pretty
basic infrastructure for many a program making use of your GPU for
rendering.

This is possibly one of those unsung heros working down there in the
boiler room where's hot and while nobody notices :)

Cheers
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t

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strange file query ghe2001 <ghe2001@pm.me> - 2022-01-16 21:50 +0100
  Re: strange file query <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-01-16 22:00 +0100
    Re: strange file query ghe2001 <ghe2001@protonmail.com> - 2022-01-16 22:10 +0100
      Re: strange file query piorunz <piorunz@gmx.com> - 2022-01-16 22:20 +0100
        Re: strange file query ghe2001 <ghe2001@protonmail.com> - 2022-01-16 23:50 +0100
          Re: strange file query <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-01-17 07:30 +0100
      Re: strange file query Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz> - 2022-01-16 23:40 +0100
      Re: strange file query <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-01-17 07:30 +0100
        Re: strange file query piorunz <piorunz@gmx.com> - 2022-01-17 13:10 +0100
          Re: strange file query ghe2001 <ghe2001@protonmail.com> - 2022-01-17 18:10 +0100
            Re: strange file query Peter Hillier-Brook <phb@hbsys.plus.com> - 2022-01-17 19:20 +0100
            Re: strange file query Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2022-01-21 18:50 +0100
              Re: strange file query ghe2001 <ghe2001@protonmail.com> - 2022-01-21 21:50 +0100

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