Sorry for the continued cross-post. I'm not sure to which list this
thread should migrate...
On Thursday, May 9, 2002, at 04:02 PM, David R. Morrison wrote:
> It has come up recently on this list and on fink-users that the
> emacsen-common
> package is creating directories in /usr/local/share. Christian
> explained
> that these are where users are free to manually add elisp files, and
> that
> he was avoiding having users place files under /sw without dpkg knowing
> about it.
>
> I would like to point out that /sw/etc is designed to contain files
> which
> are not under dpkg's control. (I'm sure that this is explained in the
> docs
> somewhere, or at least that it used to be, but I can't locate it right
> now.)
> Perhaps /sw/etc/emacs would be a more suitable location for these files?
The problem with this is (following debian's example) that /sw/etc/emacs
is where emacsen-common-compliant packages install their startup
scripts, which are included by emacs at launch-time. Additionally, each
emacs program has its own directory (for version-specific startup stuff)
/sw/etc/emacs/site-start.d/...
/sw/etc/emacs21/site-start.d/...
/sw/etc/emacs20/site-start.d/...
I can see two possible ways to fix this (and am open to suggestions for
better schemes):
1) Add a user-controlled site-lisp directory to each of the emacs
directories. So the tree would now look like:
/sw/etc/emacs/site-start.d/
/site-lisp
/sw/etc/emacs21/site-start.d/
/site-lisp
2) Make /sw/etc/emacsen-common the startup-script directory, leaving
/sw/etc/emacs for user-added files.
Problems with #1: having a directory with two similarly named
subdirectories, one of which shouldn't be touched unless the user really
knows what she is doing is kind of confusing.
Problems with #2: it's probably not an obvious place for people to look
when they're trying to customize their startups. Plus the hierarchies
get pretty long (e.g., /sw/etc/emacsen-common/emacs/site-
start.d/00fink-vars.el)...
I think my vote is with #1. But if there's a #3 that solves this in a
semi-magical fashion I'd love to hear it...
-christian
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