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Re: BBDB v3 approaching release
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Ted Zlatanov |
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Re: BBDB v3 approaching release |
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Thu, 30 May 2013 11:03:23 -0400 |
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On Thu, 30 May 2013 11:37:13 +0200 Ulrich Mueller <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>>>> On Wed, 29 May 2013, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>>> How do I configure install locations of a package if it's in ELPA
>>> format?
>> You don't.
UM> Why is this better than having them configurable? Especially, why are
UM> you asking that a package like BBDB that has a perfectly working
UM> autoconf build system should _remove_ it?
I don't think Stefan asked for that. Simply, when something is
installed as an ELPA package, it doesn't have control over its install
location.
UM> This means that anyone who wants to adhere to some standard like FHS
UM> must move files around manually. I had to do this way too often when
UM> packaging things for Gentoo.
UM> Most packages are at least friendly enough and spend a defvar or
UM> defcustom that allows to configure these directories (often with a
UM> fallback to the above-mentioned load-file-name location).
Installing system packages and installing user packages are completely
different things. The ELPA is intended as a user-accessible format,
where "user" could be "root". But it doesn't have deep integration with
any of the Emacs platforms, nor was that part of its design. I think
that's worth discussing further and improving.
Ted
- Re: BBDB v3 approaching release, (continued)
- Re: BBDB v3 approaching release, Stefan Monnier, 2013/05/29
- Re: BBDB v3 approaching release, Roland Winkler, 2013/05/30
- Re: BBDB v3 approaching release, Jambunathan K, 2013/05/30
- Re: BBDB v3 approaching release, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2013/05/30
- Re: BBDB v3 approaching release, Roland Winkler, 2013/05/30
- Re: BBDB v3 approaching release, Ulrich Mueller, 2013/05/30
- Re: BBDB v3 approaching release, Roland Winkler, 2013/05/30
- Re: BBDB v3 approaching release, Ulrich Mueller, 2013/05/30
- Re: BBDB v3 approaching release, Ted Zlatanov, 2013/05/30
- Re: BBDB v3 approaching release, Stefan Monnier, 2013/05/30
- Re: BBDB v3 approaching release,
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