> It is not only AUCTeX; I just use that as an example. I have more packages
> installed in site-lisp and some of them require a variable set to their
> location or a location of one of their files. Emacs knows the site-lisp
> directory because it puts it in load-path, so it could easily put it in a
> variable also.
The reason why packages use such variables is not that they can't find the
site-lisp directory, but that they don't know whether the package will be
installed in the site-lisp directory or elsewhere. For example, in many
cases it's installed in the user's home directory instead.
Stefan
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