Re: Bug#61167: emacsen-common: major bug in policy (not RC for potato)
- To: Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk>
- Cc: 61167@bugs.debian.org, debian-emacsen@lists.debian.org
- Subject: Re: Bug#61167: emacsen-common: major bug in policy (not RC for potato)
- From: Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu>
- Date: 21 May 2001 14:07:21 -0500
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Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu> writes:
> What would be the advantage to two directories? I guess it would be
> less confusing. I'm wondering if there would be any drawback, though.
> Maybe packages accidentally putting files in 20.X/site-lisp rather
> than emacs20/site-lisp, though I guess that would just be a bug in the
> packages similar to the one we already have.
>
> Anyone else have a reason to prefer one of these solutions over the
> other?
Unless someone has a compelling reason arguing against this, I'm going
to just change emacsen-policy to mandate that each emacsen should make
the version specific dir, i.e.
/usr/share/emacs/20.7/site-lisp
be a symlink to the flavor dir, i.e.
/usr/share/emacs20/site-lisp
This seems simplest, doesn't present any serious problems that I can
see, and is certainly better than the current arrangement, but let me
know if you think I'm mistaken.
Thanks
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