I am using SBT as my build tool for building a Scala project.
My problem is, I can’t configure SBT to download dependencies to my user home directory. Therefore I am looking for a per-user or even better a system-wide setting to tell SBT to put the Ivy cache directory somewhere else.
With maven there is the per-user settings.xml that can be used to configure the local repository.
I have read question How to override the location of Ivy’s Cache? and it’s answers, but it seems it only describes how to configure the setting on a per project basis.
If there is no alternative I would go for a per-project setting, but I didn’t get the answer from the mentioned question to work. Some more details would be most welcome, for example where to put the ivysettings.xml. I put it into the project’s root directory and it didn’t work.
You can simply add an environment variable to your sbt launch shell script:
See Library Management in the official documentation.