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Subject: Re: any way to completely disable Emacs eln-cache
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On Sat, 6 Jul 2024 12:56:11 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:

> The interpretation of the "rules" is that the files can be deleted, or
> maybe not.

Given that many Linux systems are using tmpfs, which is entirely RAM-
based, for /tmp and other similar filesystems, that’s a guarantee that the 
files in there will *not* survive a reboot.