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[QUESTION] Cache directory?

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Project
imagecraft
Number
#431
Type
issue
State
open
Author
lengau
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Current evaluation

Maintainer-opened design question: whether to mount /var/cache out of the overlay (keeping it host-local across pack runs) and what other caching improvements exist. Unlabelled, no comments or decisions yet.

Suggested action: needs triage

Reason: The issue carries no labels, no assignee and zero comments 32 days after opening, so there is no maintainer assessment, agreed approach, or acceptance criteria — it is an open-ended design question ("Should we be mounting /var/cache..." plus "What other ways can we improve caching?") rather than a scoped report. Impact is a real build-speed/image-size optimisation but not a user-facing defect; actionability is low because no proposal, benchmark or reproducer is provided and repo search tools were unavailable to confirm whether overlay exclusion support already exists.

Evaluated by: mr-cal-bot

Impact: 32 Quick Win: 4 Complexity: 48 Confidence: 62 Actionability: 25

Issue body

Should we be mounting `/var/cache` in the overlay directory to somewhere local on the machine so cached files won't make it to the image but can be used for future packing runs? What other ways can we improve caching?

Evaluation history

Date Model Scores Action Summary
stealth/space-bunny-alpha
Impact: 32
Quick Win: 4
Complexity: 48
Confidence: 62
Actionability: 25
needs triage Maintainer-opened design question: whether to mount /var/cache out of the overlay (keeping it host-local across pack runs) and what other caching improvements exist. Unlabelled, no comments or decisions yet.
stealth/space-bunny-alpha
Impact: 42
Quick Win: 5
Complexity: 68
Confidence: 91
Actionability: 38
needs triage Open, untriaged performance question about excluding /var/cache from built images while retaining it across packing runs and exploring other caching improvements
stealth/space-bunny-alpha
Impact: 20
Quick Win: 2
Complexity: 55
Confidence: 91
Actionability: 25
needs triage Maintainer asks whether to host-mount /var/cache in the overlay and requests suggestions for improving build caching; open, untriaged, and unanswered.
qwen3.6-35b-a3b-mtp-q6
Impact: 55
Quick Win: 33
Staleness: 15
Complexity: 40
Confidence: 75
Support Request: 10
needs triage Maintainer asks about mounting /var/cache in overlay to prevent cached files from being included in images and requests suggestions for caching improvements.

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