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bug#48543: Feature request: put ELN cache in $XDG_CACHE_HOME by default
From: |
Visuwesh |
Subject: |
bug#48543: Feature request: put ELN cache in $XDG_CACHE_HOME by default |
Date: |
Wed, 13 Jul 2022 18:39:16 +0530 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
[புதன் ஜூலை 13, 2022] Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@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.