Re: Bug#331114: debian-el: leaves temporary files in /tmp after installation
>>>>> PSG == Peter S Galbraith [2005-10-2]
PSG> Romain Francoise <rfrancoise@debian.org> wrote:
>> Peter S Galbraith <p.galbraith@globetrotter.net> writes:
>>
>> > Any comments from the Debian-Emacsen crowd?
>>
>> Some packages (like muse-el) use a different approach and store the
>> compilation log in the flavor-dependent site-lisp directory, which
>> solves this problem.
PSG> I think it makes it worse. Instead of having log files stored in /tmp
PSG> where they can esaily be deleted, they end up within the core
PSG> filysystem.
I use both approaches with auctex:
- site-lisp/auctex/CompilationLog.gz contains the output of byte
compiling the package; it is usually very useful for me when I
receive a bug report (I have a bug script in the package which
attach it to bug reports compiled with reportbug for this purpose,
otherwise I ask the bug submitters to send it to me), because it
also contains the output of configure, make, and so on, so that I
can easily understand why (if) the installation has failed;
- a temporary file in /tmp from update-auctex-elisp (according to the
user debconf preferences), containing the (usually) very useless
output of byte compilation of AUCTeX style files (a package specific
collection of very simple elisp forms); this file gets created on
package installation by the background running update-auctex-elisp
and once a week by a cron script (see the auctex package for more);
if I were to delete it afterwards, it would have no sense to create
it first of all: that would be more or less equivalent to redirect
the output of update-auctex-elisp to /dev/null, which is not an
option I would like to embrace.
I use the first approach with mailcrypt also.
PSG> I used to do this, but decided to move away from it some time ago
PSG> because of the clutter. I'm not going back.
Don't you think that it can be useful to have a log of the installation
specific to the host of bug submitters?
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Ciao, Davide
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