From: Evgeny Roubinchtein <zhenya1007@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Max <maxim.suraev@campus.tu-berlin.de>, 15539@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#15539: comment
Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2016 08:42:48 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGYXaSY4FBmwqEJx_+=Lm1nZTn1z4JaRsozduk-kqFHGkzkruQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83mvhfln4d.fsf@gnu.org>
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Just out of curiosity: is being compliant with the XDG Base Directory
Specification out-of-the-box (
https://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html)
currently viewed as a non-goal for Emacs? (The emphasis being on
"out-of-the-box").
On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 3:28 AM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> > From: Max <maxim.suraev@campus.tu-berlin.de>
> > Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2016 23:32:01 +0100
> >
> > As an Emacs user I would like to kindly request you to reconsider this
> bug.
> >
> > I think that the added complexity (look at the patch size, and even that
> is more
> > comments than code) is more than justified by the convenience it adds.
>
> The "complexity" mentioned in the discussion of this bug did not
> allude to the size or complexity of the patch, it alluded to the
> complexity this would add to Emacs and its development/maintenance:
> where previously user-emacs-directory and the directory pointed to by
> HOME in the environment were one and the same, now they will not be.
>
> I think if we want to revisit this issue, we should come up with the
> use cases where this feature would be useful, and see if they are
> important enough to justify the price. AFAIR, no use cases were
> provided with the original request.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-11-04 12:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-06 17:08 bug#15539: 24.3; setting user-emacs-directory at command line invocation Mike Carifio
2015-03-13 15:01 ` bug#15539: Setting " François Févotte
2015-03-16 0:36 ` Glenn Morris
2015-03-16 7:28 ` François Févotte
2015-03-17 10:08 ` François Févotte
2016-02-15 10:31 ` bug#15539: [PATCH] Setting user-emacs-directory Alexis
2016-02-15 14:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-24 4:03 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-24 17:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-25 5:48 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-11-03 22:32 ` bug#15539: comment Max
2016-11-04 7:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-04 12:42 ` Evgeny Roubinchtein [this message]
2016-11-04 12:55 ` Noam Postavsky
2016-11-04 13:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-14 18:43 ` Glenn Morris
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