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From: Bobbie Sellers <blissInSanFrancisco@mouse-potato.com>
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Subject: Re: any way to completely disable Emacs eln-cache
Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2024 09:33:57 -0700
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On 7/4/24 20:36, Robert Riches wrote:
> On 2024-07-04, Bobbie Sellers <blissInSanFrancisco@mouse-potato.com> wrote:
>> On 7/3/24 20:29, Robert Riches wrote:
>>> 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.
>>>
>>
>> 	Have you ever considered PCLinuxOS 64 bit only X86 as
>> here V and a friendly Forum that helps resolve issues.
>> <https://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php>
>> A Rolling Release...
>> bliss- Dell Precision 7730-PCLOS 2024.07-Linux 6.6.36-Plasma 5.27.11
> 
> Thank you for the suggestion.  PCLinuxOS was on my list of
> options in May of 2016.  At the time, it did not appear to have
> csh.
> 
> Thanks.
> 

How about tcsh?

> An enhanced version of csh, the C shell
> Tcsh is an enhanced but completely compatible version of csh, the C
> shell. Tcsh is a command language interpreter which can be used both
> as an interactive login shell and as a shell script command processor.
> Tcsh includes a command line editor, programmable word completion,
> spelling correction, a history mechanism, job control and a C language
> like syntax.


	If that variation is not too far out then you have
no excuse to not experiment with PCLinuxOS 64.
<http://www.pclinuxos.com>

	bliss the satisfied user.
bliss- Dell Precision 7730- PCLOS 2024.07- Linux 6.6.36- Plasma 5.27.11

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