Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Carlos E. R." Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: any way to completely disable Emacs eln-cache Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2024 02:46:14 +0200 Lines: 34 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net QgMhnJyB4tYS0cQR00Y9qwKFbTtVwPOlLAnT48OsOwaYzYqDi2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:rqNx7FNcUS6TCqDnVDK6qTw4xsA= sha256:Y08J46Iqy65cWXJog/71lgApoD/q+fwmroCOdj/EzyQ= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: en-CA, es-ANY In-Reply-To: Bytes: 2407 On 2024-07-03 16:30, candycanearter07 wrote: > Lew Pitcher wrote at 13:33 this Wednesday (GMT): >> On Wed, 03 Jul 2024 03:42:52 +0000, Robert Riches wrote: >> >>> On 2024-07-02, Carlos E.R. wrote: >>>> On 2024-07-02 06:19, Robert Riches wrote: >>>>> Is there any practical way to completely disable Emacs' eln-cache >>>>> while using Devuan Daedalus binary packages, versions in the >>>>> 1.28.2 neighborhood? Even better would be to entirely disable >>>>> native compilation. >>>>> >>>>> The cached files cause noise in Tripwire output and make messes >>>>> in directories Emacs should not be leaving messes in. Recently, >>>>> I saw .el files being left in /tmp. >>>> >>>> emacs has all the right to leave any file it wishes in /tmp. >>> >>> Not on _MY_ machine, it doesn't. Long-standing tradition says it >>> is a bug for a program to fail to clean up after itself in /tmp. >> >> Longer standing Unix tradition has a periodically-scheduled job >> (often known as "skulker" or "tmpwatch") that cleans out the various >> tmp directories (/tmp, /var/tmp, etc) of old, discarded temporary >> files. > > > Wait, really? I've been storing random files in /var/tmp.. Distributions have various policies and implementations of that. -- Cheers, Carlos E.R.