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From: "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid>
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Subject: Re: any way to completely disable Emacs eln-cache
Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2024 02:46:14 +0200
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On 2024-07-03 16:30, candycanearter07 wrote:
> Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> 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. <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.
> 
> 
> Wait, really? I've been storing random files in /var/tmp..

Distributions have various policies and implementations of that.

-- 
Cheers,
        Carlos E.R.