Hi Colin, myself (auctex, mailcrypt) and possibly someone other use:
/usr/share/$FLAVOR/site-lisp/$PACKAGE/CompilationLog.gz since ages. That kind of stuff may prove useful on bug reports times, when you could ask the user to send it to you: better keep it somewhere; /usr/share/$FLAVOR/site-lisp/$PACKAGE/ seems quite like the best place, since it get generated on installation time (i.e., you don't need /var/ at all). Cheers, -- Davide Giovanni Maria Salvetti W: http://www.linux.it/~salve/ OpenPGP (GPG) Key ID: 939686D5