Hi Deri, At 2026-01-27T20:55:40+0000, Deri wrote: > On Tuesday, 27 January 2026 19:33:03 GMT G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > At 2026-01-27T20:25:48+0100, Bruno Haible wrote: > > > ... On Manjaro 23, there is an empty directory named '_Inline' > > > created in the user's home directory. It's a little negative > > > surprise. > > > > Huh! There's one lurking in my $HOME, too--I never noticed! It's dated > > 29 December 2024, so not due to a recent change. > > > > > I guess it comes from src/devices/gropdf/gropdf.pl ? > > > > Deri, any idea what this is about? > > > > Does this have to do with the optimized font subsetting feature (written > > in C, IIRC)? > > > > It's kind of gross to litter the user's home directory like this. :( > > The information is at the top of page 3 of this document you have seen > several times.
Indeed it is, and indeed I have. Thanks for the reminder. It says: "Inline::C creates a work directory in your home directory called "_Inline", if you would prefer it used somewhere else then set environment variable PERL_INLINE_DIRECTORY to a writeable directory." Is this a commonplace convention in the Perl community, or something you innovated for gropdf? Regards, Branden
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