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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: Tue, 2 Jul 2024 23:31:05 +0200
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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.

> 
> Web searching found several ways to try to direct the cache to a
> different directory path, but that's not what I want.  (Also,
> most of those methods failed to work as advertised.)  Making the
> default directory a symlink to /dev/null simply moved the cached
> files to another directory.
> 
> Thanks.
> 

-- 
Cheers, Carlos.