Re: emacsen: need plan to fix leftover cruft in share/emacs/XX.Y...
Hi,
Well, how do we handle the possibility of having an add-on
package that is only good for emacs-20.6, but conflicts with
something in emacs 20.7?
Seems to me the bug here is packages not removing cruft from
the site-lisp directories; the solution should be to fix the add-on
packages, not to go through contortions and changing our packaging.
We already uninstall all add-on packages during an emacsen
upgrade; and that is when non-buggy add-on packages clean up. On
re-installing addon packages with the new emacsen, we re-populate the
sitelisp dir.
I vote we file important bugs against the packages in question
(for violating emacsen policy); and not change policy to accomodate
buggy packages. That, apart from being wriong, really sets a bad
precedent.
incidentally, how many packages are guilty of leaving cruft
behind, so we have an handle on the size of the problem?
manoj
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