Sujet : Re: any way to completely disable Emacs eln-cache
De : robin_listas (at) *nospam* es.invalid (Carlos E. R.)
Groupes : comp.os.linux.miscDate : 04. Jul 2024, 01:46:14
Autres entêtes
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On 2024-07-03 16:30, candycanearter07 wrote:
Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> wrote at 13:33 this Wednesday (GMT):
On Wed, 03 Jul 2024 03:42:52 +0000, Robert Riches wrote:
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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.
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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.
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emacs has all the right to leave any file it wishes in /tmp.
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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.
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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.
Wait, really? I've been storing random files in /var/tmp..
Distributions have various policies and implementations of that.
-- Cheers, Carlos E.R.
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