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bug#64829: Leaving .emacs.d/eln-cache on users disks not environmentally
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#64829: Leaving .emacs.d/eln-cache on users disks not environmentally sound |
Date: |
Mon, 24 Jul 2023 15:29:16 +0300 |
tags 64829 notabug wontfix
close 64829
thanks
> Cc: 1041767@bugs.debian.org
> From: Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org>
> Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2023 05:16:04 -0500
>
> All I know is based on
>
> https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/71825/how-often-should-emacs-28-1-native-compile-basic-emacs-files
> and
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1041767
> I am not even sure that these files piling up in
> individual Debian users'
> $HOME/.emacs.d/eln-cache/28.2-*
> and never getting deleted
> should be piling up there in the first place.
>
> As far as "native-compile-prune-cache",
> that is not something regular users know how to find or use.
>
> Anyway, this is like some big oil spill.
Noted. We provide means to clean up the cache, but those means are
disregarded with some vague hand-waving.
Closing.