Stefan Monnier <
address@hidden> schrieb am So., 21. Feb. 2016 um 03:19 Uhr:
> 1. Not only emacs provides a package manager. Linux distributions also
> provide some packages. Not sure if this is a good idea.
> The same situation is e.g. for python. You can use pip to install
> packages. And there are python packages provided by distributions.
> Some people prefer OS packages, some prefer the native package manager.
> Not sure what to do about this situation.
It's easy to make a .deb package which installs an Elisp package in the
way package.el would have installed it (but with global scope).
The two aren't 100% equivalent (upgrading/removing a dpkg-installed
package via package.el won't do the right thing), but the Debian
packages can easily do better than what is there now.
My understanding is as follows: to build such a Debian package, you'd have to install the byte-compiled files in a directory with the same name as the Emacs package, and add its parent to package-directory-list in site-start.d, is that roughly correct?