On Sat, Aug 02, 2025 at 02:33:56PM +0000, Ihor Radchenko wrote: [...]
> P.S. I am confused why multiple people are asking to disable cache. Perhaps because there is a need? > Org > has been creating ltximg directory since forever and nobody ever asked > to "disable" that one. This might have several reasons: - Not everyone is doing LaTeX with Org. Those possibly won't ever see ltximg - Image directories aren't (strictly speaking) caches: Org has to have a file to be able to display an image - The Org persisten "cache" as it is now mushes everything in some directory "out there". Image files can be whithin a project directory structure (more akin to intermediate artifacts in a Make/build setup [1]. I respect Org's decisions, but in this case I dislike them so much as to use That Other Crowbar described elsewhere in this list to get rid of it. Cheers [1] Yes, strictly speaking also a cache, but with significantly different properties (for example wrt information leakage). -- t
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