From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Colin Baxter Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs in ~/.cache Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2023 16:43:21 +0100 Message-ID: <878rafc5ie.fsf@yandex.com> References: <87leefcf1m.fsf@yandex.com> <837cpzceqc.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: m43cap@yandex.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="29603"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/30.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:rUAF5EV1TTFgvg/8O4jcNZeLVmg= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 13 17:44:02 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1qVDG6-0007We-3C for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 13 Aug 2023 17:44:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qVDFu-0006aa-L1; Sun, 13 Aug 2023 11:43:50 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qVDFh-0006a8-09 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Aug 2023 11:43:38 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qVDFe-0001Am-SN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Aug 2023 11:43:36 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1qVDFZ-00070K-I7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Aug 2023 17:43:29 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Face: BHjiJOg/Qmj'BQgsAKL@])L)e62P)C"Y=6T Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAEkAAAATAgMAAAChCMjeAAAABGdBTUEAALGPC/xhBQAAACBj SFJNAAB6JgAAgIQAAPoAAACA6AAAdTAAAOpgAAA6mAAAF3CculE8AAAACVBMVEX/zAABCWP///8I RHjYAAAAAWJLR0QCZgt8ZAAAAAlwSFlzAAALEwAACxMBAJqcGAAAAAd0SU1FB+UFEAk5BvqS634A AAAbSURBVBjTY2BgCA1hYA0FAxDDgQEERsXoIAYA2F9Eb3cpB+AAAAAldEVYdGRhdGU6Y3JlYXRl ADIwMjEtMDUtMTZUMTA6NTY6MTcrMDE6MDCh/kkpAAAAJXRFWHRkYXRlOm1vZGlmeQAyMDIxLTA1 LTE2VDA5OjU3OjA2KzAxOjAwTyZ6HwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -13 X-Spam_score: -1.4 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.4 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN=0.25, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:144802 Archived-At: >>>>> Eli Zaretskii writes: >> From: Colin Baxter 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.