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Re: A flaw in current emacsen package setup?



Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> writes:

> 	Umm. I am not sure we can capture instances of packages
>  modifying load-path internally -- since the files where modification
>  occurs may not be loaded after the site-lisp.d scripts are
>  run. 

OK.  I suppose that makes sense.  I had been implicitly presuming that
they'd only be modifying the path during startup, but I guess that may
not necessarily be true.

> 	That would be ideal. I was hoping you would suggest that ;-)
>  In which case, maintainers can edit any internal load-path
>  modification to go through emacsen-pkg-add-path as well.

OK, let me think about it for a bit and I'll propose something, though
I'd be happy to hear suggestions too.

Thanks

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