Re: It's Huntin' Season
Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> wrote:
> >>"Peter" == Peter S Galbraith <p.galbraith@globetrotter.net> writes:
>
> Peter> How about it, debian-emacsen collegues, is it time to set (or follow)
> Peter> policy and mark them _all_ as conffiles? Do we have clear example of
> Peter> where this would be a nuisance?
>
> I was going to say we should mark them as conffiles, for
> consistencies sake, if for no other reason,
I agree.
> when I noticed an
> interesting fact: none of my emacs packages actually ships with a
> file in in /etc, and I have checked: gnus, vm, and psgml.
But they ship the empty directories. ;-)
So you don't setup autoloads or auto-mode-alist entries?
I guess the load-path add-on of subdirectories is done by modern emacsen
anyway, but are they at the right place? If so, perhaps we should
discontinue the habit of adding anything to the load-path.
> However, if files are shipped in /etc, they _have_ to be
> marked as conffiles, I think.
Do we need another non-conffile directory to put startup files?
I don't. Does anyone else?
Peter
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