Caching: Use a more respectful default location?

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Audits Python environments, requirements files and dependency trees for known security vulnerabilities, and can automatically fix them

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Caching: Use a more respectful default location? #342

Closed woodruffw closed 2 weeks ago

woodruffw commented 2 years ago

At the moment, we fall back to ~/.pip-audit/cache if pip cache dir fails. This isn't a "respectful" default, since it doesn't adhere to either XDG (which probably wants us to consult XDG_CACHE_HOME) or macOS's conventions (~/Library/Caches, probably).

This probably isn't the most important change to make since 99% of users won't notice it anyways, but it would make us a slightly better participant in the user's home directory.

aanghelidi commented 2 months ago

Hello @woodruffw, I made a PR that solves this issue. It is ready for a review.