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From: Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: any way to completely disable Emacs eln-cache
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2024 13:33:55 -0000 (UTC)
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On Wed, 03 Jul 2024 03:42:52 +0000, Robert Riches wrote:

> On 2024-07-02, Carlos E.R. <robin_listas@es.invalid> 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.


-- 
Lew Pitcher
"In Skills We Trust"