Re: Suppressing native compilation (short and long term)

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Cc: chad <yandros@gmail.com>,  Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
>   tomas@tuxteam.de,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 02 Oct 2022 20:06:11 +0200
> 
> Rob Browning <rlb@defaultvalue.org> writes:
> 
> > A second, and a separable question, is whether Debian should try to
> > maintain system-level (root owned) .eln files the same way it does for
> > .elc files.
> 
> I think that makes sense.

Why do you think so?  A user who installs emacs-gtk and a user who
installs emacs-nox will need different *.eln files.  So Debian will
end up with a separate subdirectory for each configuration they
produce and for each Emacs version.  That's a lot of files and
directories, and high risk that many of them will never be used.
Also, a lot of problematic management of those directories. like the
decision when to delete them etc.  It is much easier to leave that to
users.