Re: Bug#329114: Please don't shadow emacs-snapshot packages

[Peter Galbraith <GalbraithP@dfo-mpo.gc.ca>]

Romain Francoise <rfrancoise@debian.org> wrote:

> Peter S Galbraith <psg@debian.org> writes:
> 
> > Anyone have any bright ideas?
> 
> Create /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/emacs-goodies-el/<flavor>/
> directories, populate them with symlinks to only the files we want for
> each flavor, and add that to the load-path instead.
> 
> It isn't pretty, but it should work...

True, but cumbersome.

Two things come to mind:

1- Perhaps if I don't explicitely add
   /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/emacs-goodies-el/ to the load-path, it
   will get added automatically at the tail end, because it is a
   subdirectory of /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp ?

   (I haven't tried this on emacs-snapshot since I'm not at home right
   now)

2- Perhaps emacs-snapshot can be modified to have it's generic load-path
   all done by the time the /etc/emacs startup files are run.  That
   way. add entries at the tail end of the load-path would indeed yield
   the expected result.  For everybody.  Not just me.

Thanks,
Peter