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From: The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: any way to completely disable Emacs eln-cache
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2024 10:35:48 +0100
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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...:-)


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