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From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
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Subject: Re: Suppressing native compilation (short and long term)
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2022 14:05:05 -0300
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Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> David Bremner [2022-09-30 10:13:56] wrote:
>> I think just turning off native compilation when HOME is not writeable
>> would be sensible from a Debian point of view. Emacs did not previously
>
> That's not the problem: the problem is when $HOME is writable but doesn't
> belong to the user (e.g. because the user is root): then Emacs ends up
> writing files (and creating directories) which then end up being
> "unwritable" by the owner of $HOME.

That is _also_ a problem, but not the one causing many Debian packages
to fail to build from source.