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Re: Why do we use ".../share/emacs/site-lisp/guix.d/"?


From: Ludovic Courtès
Subject: Re: Why do we use ".../share/emacs/site-lisp/guix.d/"?
Date: Sun, 08 May 2016 18:51:35 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux)

Alex Kost <address@hidden> skribis:

> I should have asked this when emacs-build-system was introduced.  Why
> does it put emacs packages in sub-directories of
> "/share/emacs/site-lisp/guix.d"?  It looks more natural to me just to
> use "/share/emacs/site-lisp".
>
> I don't see any potential conflicts here: some packages will put their
> elisp files right in the site-lisp dir (gnu-build-system does it by
> default), and emacs-build-system can just use
> "/share/emacs/site-lisp/<package>" sub-directories.
>
> "guix.d" seems redundant to me.  What do people think?

I think there was a Good Reason™.  Isn’t it that we wanted to mimic what
package.el does, while avoiding collisions with package.el-installed
software?

Ludo’.



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