Re: emacs in ~/.cache

[Colin Baxter]

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

    >> From: Colin Baxter <m43cap@yandex.com> Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2023
    >> 13:17:25 +0100
    >> 
    >> 
    >> I've noticed that emacs now puts a directory into ~/.cache. This
    >> is in Debian but I assume emacs in other systems are behave the
    >> same. I think that ~/.cache/emacs is fairly new, perhaps
    >> beginning emacs-28, but I am not certain.
    >> 
    >> I have never seen ~/.cache/emacs populated with anything, so what
    >> is its purpose?

    > Some distros insist on putting the *.eln files in XDG_CACHE_DIR,
    > which defaults to ~/.cache.  I guess Debian is one of them.  Too
    > bad (IMNSHO), but they cannot be bothered.

Thanks for the information. I never compile emacs with
native-compilation enabled. But if I did then I don't think I'd want the
.eln files anywhere near $HOME/.cache, which gets deleted on my system
every re-boot.

Colin.