Ralph Corderoy <[email protected]> writes:

> Perhaps Simon is thinking of package managers run by a user for just
> their environment, e.g. Go's `vgo' is caching libraries of external Go
> source as zip files now.  CACHEDIR.TAG, defined by
> http://www.brynosaurus.com/cachedir/spec.html, and used by GNU tar,
> etc., is related.

For software run by interactive users, these days I would tend to just
follow the XDG specification.  It's pretty widely adopted at this point
and there seems to be slow movement towards it for most interactive
software.

https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html

This specifies $XDG_CACHE_HOME, falling back on $HOME/.cache if not set.

-- 
Russ Allbery ([email protected])              <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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