Subject: Re: bug#79124: emacs -Q doesn't give me a clean slate

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2025 13:48:30 -0700

On 2025-08-05 10:52, Manuel Giraud wrote:
> I don't know why something like this would
> not work:
> 
> emacs -Q --init-directory=$(mktemp -d)

That leaves behind a directory in /tmp. Actually, it leaves two of them 
behind, one for a different reason; libgccjit creates it. Although these 
are not fatal objections, they're messes that we're better off without. 
Testing should be simple, not complicated.