Re: Debian's idiosyncratic complexification of Emacs

[Karl Fogel]

Don Armstrong <address@hidden> writes:
>> The only thing this does is to prevent the loading of the
>> site-start.el in the standard Emacs place, i.e.
>> /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/ (This is documented on page "Init
>> File" of the Emacs manual.)
>
> Configuration files such as site-start.el need to be in /etc by FHS,
> and by Debian policy.

Why not put a line in the regular site-start.el -- the one in the
Emacs-standard location, not the one in /etc/emacs/site-start.el -- that
loads /etc/emacs/site-start.el?

Or if the problem is that Debian isn't allowed to touch anything under
/usr/local/, then put code in /etc/emacs/site-start.el that loads
/usr/share/.../site-start.el and /usr/local/share/.../site-start.el (and
same for any other potentially blocked 'site-start.el's).

Wouldn't that solve all the problems here?

Do you need a bug filed at bugs.debian.org, or is this email enough?

Best,
-Karl