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Feature request: put ELN cache in $XDG_CACHE_HOME by default

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 48543 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, cpitclaudel <at> gmail.com, akrl <at> sdf.org
Subject: bug#48543: Feature request: put ELN cache in $XDG_CACHE_HOME by default
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2022 14:45:49 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> > FWIW, I had a quick look through my .cache folder, and it seems that
>> > chromium and Firefox both put compiled code in that folder (JS
>> > bytecode and compiled Webassembly files).
>> 
>> Since the .eln files are cached data, it seems like the right place to
>> put them.  Of course the user would like all (non-stale) cached data to
>> persist.
>
> So we prefer to hear more complaints about Emacs being slow to start
> because the eln-cache was purged?  Don't forget that the XDG
> directories can disappear without a warning.

This doesn't seem to worry the Chromium etc people, so I don't think it
should worry us.  

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