Why is pkgsrc ccache in work directory? (Best way to tweak PLIST on version bump)

[Mayuresh <mayuresh%acm.org@localhost>]

On Mon, Mar 05, 2012 at 10:17:31PM +0530, Mayuresh wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 04, 2012 at 06:33:21PM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote:
> > Use ccache.  Then building isn't so bad.
> 
> I added like this to mk.conf
> 
> PKGSRC_COMPILER=ccache gcc
> 
> But I don't see ~/.ccache directory getting generated. Am I missing
> something?

Ok I found .ccache. It's there in the work directory.

But won't it get purged on make clean? Why shouldn't it be elsewhere say ~
or some designated location in pkgsrc?

Mayuresh.