Re: emacs in ~/.cache

[Sven Joachim]

On 2023-08-13 15:24 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> 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.

Well, that guess was wrong.  The *.eln files are put into
~/.emacs.d/eln-cache.

> Too bad (IMNSHO), but they cannot be bothered.

You have certainly no obligation whatsoever to contact the Debian Emacs
maintainers, but please do not discourage others from doing so if they
have Debian-specific problems.

Cheers,
       Sven