[19:32:18] <nickabbey> ....and it looks like it.s a .conf file on linux, not a .ini.
[19:32:35] <nickabbey> changing it to a .conf shows that it IS reading the config file, but it shows:
[19:32:50] <nickabbey> DEPRECATION: --download-cache has been deprecated and will be removed in the future. Pip now automatically uses and configures its cache.
[19:33:14] <nickabbey> and then it just ignores the setting and puts things in ~/.cache/pip anyway