From: Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: emacs in ~/.cache
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2023 18:16:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sf8mrk7n.fsf@turtle.gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <837cpzceqc.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sun, 13 Aug 2023 15:24:11 +0300")
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-08-13 16:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-08-13 12:17 emacs in ~/.cache Colin Baxter
2023-08-13 12:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-08-13 15:43 ` Colin Baxter
2023-08-13 16:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-08-13 16:16 ` Sven Joachim [this message]
2023-08-13 13:52 ` Michael Albinus
2023-08-13 15:38 ` Colin Baxter
2023-08-13 16:13 ` Michael Albinus
2023-08-13 17:42 ` Colin Baxter
2023-08-19 21:56 ` Emanuel Berg
2023-08-22 15:45 ` Michael Albinus
2023-08-22 19:22 ` Emanuel Berg
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