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> 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.