title: Apache Ivy: Difference between local Ivy cache and local repository
body: <p>By default Ivy installs a "local cache" under your <code>&lt;HOME&gt;/.ivy2</code> directory. But if I decide to "host" a local repository on the same machine, say, at <code>&lt;HOME&gt;/workbench/ivy/</code>, then how are these two concepts different? Isn't a cache the same thing as an artifact repository?</p>