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Re:$Home, Not So Sweet $Home by yencabulator on Thursday August 17, 2023 @11:51AM (#37163575)
I don't see anything saying that clearing ~/.cache on every boot is expected behavior. I see lots of real world behavior of using ~/.cache as a multi-gigabyte download cache you would not want to lose regularly.
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Re:$Home, Not So Sweet $Home by fjfuvucucuc on Thursday August 17, 2023 @10:10PM (#37170709)
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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