Re: Load-path woes (was: Re: New DFSG-compliant emacs packages)

[Jérôme Marant <jerome@marant.org>]

Le samedi 28 octobre 2006 10:35, Sven Joachim a écrit :

> I'm afraid even the Debian maintainers do not understand it, because
> load-path is _really_ broken in Debian Emacsen.  The add-on packages'
> directories are supposed to come after the site-specific directories
> under /usr/local according to section 9 of the Emacs Policy, but in
> reality it's the other way around. :-(  I reported this back in March
> but did not get replies.

I'm not sure about where the problem comes from. I suspect it comes
from emacsen-common, in the debian-startup.el file,
debian-pkg-add-load-path-item function. You may want to check it
out and find out what's wrong.

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Jérôme Marant