Re: Bug#193439: emacsen-common: debian-emacs-policy and package setup in conffile
On Fri, 16 May 2003 16:37:39 +0200, Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> said:
> 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.
A, this is against policy; users need to be able to modify
_all_ configuration matter.
Why not just write correct startup files, that know when the
package is gone? And which preserve user changes? It isnot as if
there are not examples of packages that do the right thing.
manoj
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