diff --git a/Project.toml b/Project.toml
index c7c8249e..e80cef09 100644
--- a/Project.toml
+++ b/Project.toml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 name = "BinaryBuilderBase"
 uuid = "7f725544-6523-48cd-82d1-3fa08ff4056e"
 authors = ["Elliot Saba <staticfloat@gmail.com>"]
-version = "1.40.0"
+version = "1.41.0"
 
 [deps]
 Bzip2_jll = "6e34b625-4abd-537c-b88f-471c36dfa7a0"
diff --git a/deps/.gitignore b/deps/.gitignore
deleted file mode 100644
index 0d6186ab..00000000
--- a/deps/.gitignore
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-# Ignore ccache
-/ccache
-
-# Ignore cached downloads
-/downloads
-
-/enable_apple
diff --git a/src/BinaryBuilderBase.jl b/src/BinaryBuilderBase.jl
index e51cf27b..77dffa79 100644
--- a/src/BinaryBuilderBase.jl
+++ b/src/BinaryBuilderBase.jl
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ function __init__()
 
     # Allow the user to override the default value for `storage_dir`
     storage_cache[] = get(ENV, "BINARYBUILDER_STORAGE_DIR",
-                          abspath(joinpath(@__DIR__, "..", "deps")))
+                          @get_scratch!("storage_cache"))
 
     # If the user has signalled that they really want us to automatically
     # accept apple EULAs, do that.