Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Robert Riches Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: any way to completely disable Emacs eln-cache Date: 3 Jul 2024 03:42:52 GMT Organization: none-at-all Lines: 20 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: spamtrap42@jacob21819.net X-Trace: individual.net TLx8P4hIop8QfKV0een5lQEQWtmDyUATBFvuXtBSoePvK1rSOm Cancel-Lock: sha1:rqKl6gnL58KmDnNXntzKbvCOH8I= sha256:Gqv1NwOERPw3YY9q9N1KKG6c9rcaZqqKLtznjRz02n0= User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) Bytes: 1593 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. -- Robert Riches spamtrap42@jacob21819.net (Yes, that is one of my email addresses.)