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



On Fri, 16 May 2003 08:17:51 -0400, Peter S Galbraith <p.galbraith@globetrotter.net> said: 

> Unfortunately, that's against Debian policy.

	And rightly so, I think.

> What we need is an alternate directory that is _not_ under /etc
> where we could also put Emacs startup files.

	Umm, no. I want to be able to modify anything that goes into
 my emacs session; putting the files under /etc and allowing users to
 modify them is the right thing to do.

	You do preserve user changes, right?

	manoj
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