Gary Lawrence Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I notice that Mandrake is locating things in
> /usr/lib/xemacs-21.4.9/i386-mandrake-linux/ while the built-in update
> process for Xemacs places them in /usr/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/etc

Yes I get some difficulties make understand xemacs that non architecture
dependant files must not be in /usr/lib/

> This leads to a situation where my harddrive now contains:
>
> # ls /usr/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/etc
> auctex/  frame-icon/      idlwave/  mew/       ps-print/  time/
> bbdb/    gnats/           ilisp/    mine/      reftex/    vm/
> e/       gnus/            jde/      mule/      slider/    w3/
> ediff/   gnusrefcard/     lisp/     mule-doc/  smilies/   xslt-process/
> eicq/    hm--html-menus/  message/  psgml/     sounds/    zenirc/
>
> # ls /usr/lib/xemacs-21.4.9/i386-mandrake-linux/etc/
> enriched.doc  liece/  mule/  mule-doc/  mule-ucs/  psgml/  ps-print/  reftex/
>
> The former appears to be left over from long-since upgraded Xemacs
> releases now leaving me with the issue of figuring out which are
> duplicates and which are updates.
>
> Is the i386-mandrake-linux dir is more correct?  Is it safe to symlink
> xemacs-packages to i386-mandrake-linux ?  Do I have a real mess or
> what?
>
> Is it /wise/ to fork Xemacs incompatibly with it's own package manager?

I guess it must not and it must be fixed, but it seems that on some point
xemacs ignore the configure option giving the datadir as /usr/share and
still use /usr/lib/

-- 
Warly

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