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yencabulator on Aug 17, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: $HOME, not so sweet $HOME

I don't see anything saying that clearing ~/.cache on every boot is expected behavior. I see lots of real world behavior of using ~/.cache as a multi-gigabyte download cache you would not want to lose regularly.

fjfuvucucuc on Aug 18, 2023 [–]

Cache is for user specific, non essential data.

I'd prefer a multigigabyte download went in state or data dirs if you don't want to lose it regularly.

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