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Re: Debian's idiosyncratic complexification of Emacs
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: Debian's idiosyncratic complexification of Emacs |
Date: |
Mon, 14 Jul 2008 22:20:28 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) |
> We don't include a content-free site-start.el; here is its content:
> ;; Emacsen independent startup file. All of the various installed
> ;; flavors of emacs (emacs 19, emacs 20, xemacs) will load this file
> ;; at startup. Make sure any code you put here is emacs flavor
> ;; independent.
> ;; Package maintainers: do not have Debian packages edit this file.
> ;; See the policy manual for the proper way to handle Emacs package
> ;; initialization code.
That qualifies as "content free" in my book.
>> The only thing this does is to prevent the loading of the
>> site-start.el in the standard Emacs place, i.e.
>> /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/ (This is documented on page "Init
>> File" of the Emacs manual.)
> Configuration files such as site-start.el need to be in /etc by FHS,
> and by Debian policy.
Then they should put a symlink from
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.el to /etc/emacs/site-start.el.
Stefan
- Re: Debian's idiosyncratic complexification of Emacs, (continued)
- Re: Debian's idiosyncratic complexification of Emacs, Manoj Srivastava, 2008/07/16
- Re: Debian's idiosyncratic complexification of Emacs, David Kastrup, 2008/07/16
- Re: Debian's idiosyncratic complexification of Emacs, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2008/07/16
- Re: Debian's idiosyncratic complexification of Emacs, Manoj Srivastava, 2008/07/16
- Re: Debian's idiosyncratic complexification of Emacs, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2008/07/17
- Re: Debian's idiosyncratic complexification of Emacs, Agustin Martin, 2008/07/18
- Re: Debian's idiosyncratic complexification of Emacs [Was: Emacs vista build failures], Don Armstrong, 2008/07/14
- Re: Debian's idiosyncratic complexification of Emacs,
Stefan Monnier <=
- Re: Debian's idiosyncratic complexification of Emacs, Don Armstrong, 2008/07/15
- Re: Debian's idiosyncratic complexification of Emacs [Was: Emacs vista build failures], Stephen J. Turnbull, 2008/07/15
- Re: Debian's idiosyncratic complexification of Emacs [Was: Emacs vista build failures], Alan Mackenzie, 2008/07/15
- Re: Debian's idiosyncratic complexification of Emacs, David Kastrup, 2008/07/15
- Re: Debian's idiosyncratic complexification of Emacs, Manoj Srivastava, 2008/07/16
- Re: Debian's idiosyncratic complexification of Emacs, Stefan Monnier, 2008/07/16
- Re: Debian's idiosyncratic complexification of Emacs, Karl Fogel, 2008/07/16
- Re: Debian's idiosyncratic complexification of Emacs, Karl Fogel, 2008/07/16
- Re: Debian's idiosyncratic complexification of Emacs, Manoj Srivastava, 2008/07/16
- Re: Debian's idiosyncratic complexification of Emacs, Karl Fogel, 2008/07/21