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Re: A cache directory?
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Yuan Fu |
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Re: A cache directory? |
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Sun, 16 Aug 2020 16:43:47 -0400 |
> On Aug 16, 2020, at 3:45 PM, Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 17 Aug 2020 at 02:30, Yuan Fu <casouri@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Maybe this has been discussed but I can’t find any threads in the archive.
>> .emacs.d is pretty crowded: every package puts their temporary files under
>> it. I wonder if there could be a standard cache directory? I know there are
>> packages that's solely for this purpose: resetting every single xxx-file to
>> be under a cache directory. However, it would be better if there is just a
>> standard one and everybody uses it.
>
> There is a package called [no-littering][1] that modifies many
> packages’ defaults to use .emacs.d/var/ for their persistent data, of
> which caches are a subset. The convention (simplified; see README for
> full details) is, if a package has a single persistent file, then it
> goes right there; otherwise, they go in a subdirectory named after the
> package responsible.
>
> [1]: https://github.com/emacscollective/no-littering
That’s good, too. But even just a single cache directory that cleans up
.emacs.d is welcome.
Yuan
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- Re: A cache directory?, Yuri Khan, 2020/08/16
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