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Path: ...!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!news.in-chemnitz.de!news.swapon.de!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail 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) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 27 Message-ID: <v63k03$26k9p$1@dont-email.me> References: <slrnv86vve.aen.spamtrap42@one.localnet> <p58elkxpuf.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <slrnv89i5s.kr5.spamtrap42@one.localnet> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Wed, 03 Jul 2024 15:33:55 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="35afdc4fc0d88b811dedc0a0f034bbda"; logging-data="2314553"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/+zBFUqADg7NtFUDhekX/EmenuOm7YA1g=" User-Agent: Pan/0.139 (Sexual Chocolate; GIT bf56508 git://git.gnome.org/pan2) Cancel-Lock: sha1:tVfLTa+kHRtnEwNBrgA++N89nww= Bytes: 2197 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"