From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: A more radical cleanup for make bootstrap? Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2022 05:35:36 +0300 Message-ID: <838rmeydqf.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87mtavnm5m.fsf@gnus.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="11673"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: larsi@gnus.org, gregory@heytings.org, luangruo@yahoo.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, stefan@marxist.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Alan Mackenzie Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 20 04:36:56 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oaT83-0002nt-0x for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 20 Sep 2022 04:36:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33780 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oaT81-0001cR-Jq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 19 Sep 2022 22:36:53 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:53026) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oaT6p-0000os-Tr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Sep 2022 22:35:39 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:52354) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oaT6o-0006yS-Nx; Mon, 19 Sep 2022 22:35:39 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=o8SKlsT4n/i9CHP4pr7/FcGLLnY8oLT0whE+E+pp6jk=; b=A9qMXKSxKFzu XLDqchhAlqt/GdEApD4Ll8tljtyoBxCbp7Dly+vJl2zvPkyuY58rX6VmAzHLm0ja7BaFTMkjweJ3j +3z+8F1F1p8UCwZ7DPYa1Gh862898hcbL3u9XUuCX0SSOkzUP49smEbe7lLTVE/laP6P09xoCljW2 eSU25amUpiP6+CdyXOZYHTXsvyZdz08n/WD1L8Gz79dR2ddjla2WKpmoFSn3as3JYcVihRMeOx0hT XsN8dE6ucWmJVK+jjO6htwMAec+FStoMX9jOzmAEkUtg4xEL20FeyDgB1CFxdwsz70ZBA0Ib+W+sy 3IDPqwI+o4StvaF9vE2phg==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (port=1554 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oaT6h-0003HG-MK; Mon, 19 Sep 2022 22:35:38 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Alan Mackenzie on Mon, 19 Sep 2022 20:49:23 +0000) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:295772 Archived-At: > Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2022 20:49:23 +0000 > Cc: Gregory Heytings , Po Lu , > Stefan Monnier , > Stefan Kangas , emacs-devel@gnu.org > From: Alan Mackenzie > > If the choice is between failing to delete some generated files, and > deleting unrecoverable files, I'd take the first choice. What are "unrecoverable files" in this context, please? Can you give a couple of examples of such files?