Re: Bug#193439: emacsen-common: debian-emacs-policy and package setup in conffile

[Peter S Galbraith <p.galbraith@globetrotter.net>]

Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> wrote:

> One solution would be to modify emacs to look for, before default.el
> and site-start.el, a /usr/share/emacs/debian-lisp.el and have a
> /usr/share/emacs/debian-lisp.rc/ directory which corresponds to
> todays' /etc/emacs/site-start.d/ but is managed entirely by Debian
> packages.  The files should contain the minimal amount of code
> required to get a package up'n'running, and should assume the rest of
> the package is installed.
> 
> Then /etc/emacs/site-start.d/ can be dedicated entirely to site
> customizations, instead of being something where debian packages write
> to but is unable to modify or remove in.  Having debian packages write
> to something called "site" seems confusing to me, Emacs uses that term
> for site local modifications.

I like the idea.