Re: problem with emacs configuration scripts
tb@MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) writes:
> The menu-methods technique works fine, but I don't think it would
> violate my proposed policy addition. Perhaps a better way to say it
> is:
>
> "Packages which install conffiles should be careful that those
> conffiles do not continue to affect the behavior of other programs
> once the package has been removed. It should not be necessary to
> purge a package in order to prevent it from having an affect on other
> programs."
>
> menu-methods installers would meet this by changing the mode. Emacs
> scripts could do it by my "callout" suggestion or by having the emacs
> load code do something more clever than it does now.
I still like this policy idea.
But the octave maintainer has suggested a different solution: change
the elisp start file to check for the existence of relevant files, and
only do its thing if the package is really installed. (That's
basically what /etc/init.d scripts already do.)
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