I’m currently trying to get comfortable on NixOS on my laptop before switching over to it from Arch on my desktop, and I’ve noticed that there’s a .keep file in the ~/.cache directory. I normally wouldn’t care about it, except that my XDG_CACHE_HOME isn’t ~/.cache, but rather set to $XDG_STATE_HOME/cache which is ~/.var/cache (to mirror how cache is in /var/cache).
So what even is the .keep file, and how do I make it go to my XDG_CACHE_HOME to stop it from cluttering up my home directory?
.keep file is meant to tell you to keep that directory even if its empty. You can delete it if you knoow what you are doing