Re: Suppressing native compilation (short and long term)

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: Rob Browning <rlb@defaultvalue.org>,  larsi@gnus.org,
>   yandros@gmail.com,  tomas@tuxteam.de,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2022 14:45:32 -0400
> 
> > And I guess now I'm confused what is it exactly that you'd want to
> > achieve.  Do you want to disable native compilation, or do you want to
> > have all *.eln files in a shared location?
> 
> AFAIK he wants:
> 
> - To eagerly compile the `.eln` files for the third party ELisp packages
>   installed system-wide using Debian's package manager.
> 
> - That every time Emacs is run as part of
>   (un)installing/building/testing a Debian package, that Emacs should
>   not write any file under $HOME/ (or ~$REALUSER/ either).

That's where I'm confused: if *.eln files are installed system-wide,
then why would there be any compilation that writes to the home
directory, which then causes Rob to wish to disable it?  All *.eln
files are already available, no?