Move ~/.cargo to ~/.cache/cargo?

[SimonSapin]

I see that Cargo creates a .cargo directory in my home directory, containing git repositories and checkouts of dependencies I use. These files seem "non-essential": if removed, Cargo will just download dependencies again and recreate them.

At least Linux, the best practice here seems to be to follow the XDG Base Directory Specification and have these files in $XDG_CACHE_HOME/cargo, falling back on ~/.cache/cargo if the variable is not set, empty, or not an absolute path.

[netvl]

I'd like to note that ~/.cargo can also contain a configuration file, though it is not widely advertised now (I don't know its full abilities, but it currently can override paths to various packages system-wise).

Also Windows does not have anything like XDG specification.

[tomjakubowski]

this is #148

[huonw]

(Closing as a dupe, thanks for filing!)

[SimonSapin]

@netvl Yeah, that should go into ~/.config/cargo, or whatever the XDG variable is. I’ll comment on #148