<to...@tuxteam.de> writes:

>> 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

Then, setting org-element-cache-persistent will be good enough.

>  - 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.

Patches adding org-persist an ability to maintain caches in
project/current directory will be welcome.

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