Re: Cleaning up and structuring user-emacs-directory

[Stefan Kangas]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> We should take care to distinguish which files are cache files
>> and put them into ~/.cache.
>
> Agreed.  I think package.el's `archive-contents` file do qualify as
> caches, as do the <pkg>-readme.txt files.

How about something like:

(locate-user-cache-file "foo")
=> ~/.cache/emacs/foo

(locate-user-cache-file "archive-contents" 'package)
=> ~/.cache/emacs/package/archive-contents

(We already have `xdg-cache-home', BTW.)

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas