Re: debian-emacs-policy
From: Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu>
Subject: Re: debian-emacs-policy
Date: 13 Mar 1998 12:32:00 -0600
> > I think it is better that debian-run-direcotires add
> > /usr/share/<emacs>/site-lisp/<package-name>/ to load-path
> > if /etc/<emacs>/site-start.d/NN<package-name>.el{,c} successfully loaded
> > and /usr/share/<emacs>/site-lisp/<package-name>/ exists and is directory.
> >
> > I agree. This would, in some cases, simplify creating emacs add-on
> > packages quite a bit.
>
> I don't think I want to do this. I think I'd like to leave it
> completely up to the package maintainer to decide what should be added
> to the load path.
>
> Consider, for example, a package that has all its files in
> /usr/share/<emacs>/site-lisp/<package-name>/lisp. Why should
> /usr/share/<emacs>/site-lisp/<package-name>/ be in the load path?
Why don't decide which to be used for debian elisp add-on?
> Also a package might just load all it's code from the /etc/ file, so
> modifications to the load path would be superflouous.
Which elisp file should we set load-path for elisp-package?
/etc/<emacs>/site-start.d/NN<package>.el{,c} would not work
because debian-run-directories reset load-path after load it.
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Fumitoshi UKAI / Debain JP Project
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