* to...@tuxteam.de <to...@tuxteam.de> [2022-12-31 10:12]: > Perhaps it would make sense to state the goals in more > detail. I can see many "aspects": > > - "I don't want my ~/.emacs.d/ littered beyond my explicit > control"
Isn't that happening anyway by various packages and functions? I see there "auto-install", "auto-save-list" directories, I did not create them myself. I see "desktop", though I used "desktop" package nobody warned me it will be there. There is "erc-log" which I did not know it will be there, there is "eshell", "games", "icons", "image-dired", "multisession", "newsticker", "todo" and so on, too many. I never had explicit control over creation of those files. Using a package alone is not what I consider under "explicit", as I was not asked directly about any of those directories. > - "I don't have (nor want to have) XDG directories" Me too, I do not want to have, and I do not have, but some XDG environment variables are there. > - "I don't want things in /tmp" [1] Me too, but I keep it in my private $TMPDIR, as it is unsafe to keep it in /tmp I do keep /tmp encrypted for that reason as it is not safe. And my /home is also encrypted on different partition. In general it is unsafe to choose /tmp for private information as then maybe /tmp is not encrypted. > - "I don't want my Emacs's session state to spill to > persistent media" Me too, unless I use "desktop" and that is saved on encrypted partition. But I would not like using Org files on remote servers and that information is anywhere else stored unencrypted about which file I opened and what I wrote. -- Jean Take action in Free Software Foundation campaigns: https://www.fsf.org/campaigns In support of Richard M. Stallman https://stallmansupport.org/