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From: Robert Riches <spamtrap42@jacob21819.net>
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Subject: Re: any way to completely disable Emacs eln-cache
Date: 4 Jul 2024 03:29:50 GMT
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On 2024-07-03, The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> On 03/07/2024 04:42, 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.
>> 
> Tell that to systemd...:-)

systemd?  Not on this machine!!!!!

A test VM installation of the first Mageia release with systemd
appeared to install okay.  However, on first boot, the boot
process got hung up, waited several minutes, reported some
timeouts, and came up with a severely crippled system.  IIRC,
not all of the RAIDs were composed, and not all of the
filesystems were mounted.  The tools to analyze the binary
registry^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hjournal weren't installed.

Determined to be one of the last people on the planet to use an
init system other than systemd, I switched to Slackware, then to
Debian, and now to Devuan (Beowulf, Chimaera, and now Daedalus).
If it becomes impractical to use Linux without systemd, one of
the BSDs will have to do.

-- 
Robert Riches
spamtrap42@jacob21819.net
(Yes, that is one of my email addresses.)