Re: change in Debian emacs policy: make global enabling of add-on lisp packages optional
Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 12:10:53AM +0100, Davide G. M. Salvetti wrote:
> > MB> It sounds like these might be better considered bugs against the
> > MB> individual packages though, if they're doing unfriendly things
> > MB> without being asked to.
> >
> > No, you did not understand the issue.
>
> > 1. AUC TeX is an enhanced TeX mode, associated to TeX files, with
> > peculiar keys, commands and menus.
>
> I mentioned that packages adding to `auto-mode-alist' was one exception to
> the general rule (but one which is easily controlled). Does auctex do more
> than that? If so, what does it do?
>
> The special case of auto-mode-alist is easier to control because it's a very
> narrow and specific interface. If a debian package adds an entry to that in
> the site-start file, then it's easy for users to remove the entry (or
> alternatively, add it, if it's _not_ added by default).
I think we should (and do) go further. Adding to auto-mode-alist s only
okay if we don't override an entry already handled in standard Emacs.
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