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Feature request: put ELN cache in $XDG_CACHE_HOME by default

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From: Visuwesh <visuweshm <at> gmail.com>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 48543 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> 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 18:39:16 +0530

[புதன் ஜூலை 13, 2022] Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:

> 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.  

Why not use XDG_DATA_HOME in that case?  It doesn't get cleared I think.

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