Re: any way to completely disable Emacs eln-cache

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"