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Re: Debian's idiosyncratic complexification of Emacs
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Manoj Srivastava |
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Re: Debian's idiosyncratic complexification of Emacs |
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Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:59:32 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) |
On Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:43:03 -0400, Karl Fogel <address@hidden> said:
> 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).
While Debian maintainers can not touch anything under
/usr/local, Debian install emacs with the PREFIX=/usr, and
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.el Could be made to load the file
under /etc.
> Wouldn't that solve all the problems here?
Either the symlink or the modified version put in
$PREFIX/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.el will solve the issue, yes.
> Do you need a bug filed at bugs.debian.org, or is this email enough?
I'll file the bug report. Mind you, I am not the maintainer, so
I can't guarantee how fast it will be acted upon, but I'll at least put
in a pointer to this discussion in my bug report.
manoj
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- Re: Debian's idiosyncratic complexification of Emacs, Manoj Srivastava, 2008/07/16
- Re: Debian's idiosyncratic complexification of Emacs, Stefan Monnier, 2008/07/16
- Re: Debian's idiosyncratic complexification of Emacs, Karl Fogel, 2008/07/16
- Re: Debian's idiosyncratic complexification of Emacs, Karl Fogel, 2008/07/16
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