From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
To: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: RFC - cleaning up /etc
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 10:51:21 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140110155121.GA8178@thyrsus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1W1dAt-0007bB-Pm@fencepost.gnu.org>
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>:
> I propose to fix this with a reorganization. /etc should be the data
> directory for files used by Lisp and programs in the suite. The files
> meant exclusively for human browsing - the jokes, the cookie recipe,
> the Manifesto, the hacking guides - should move to a new directory
> designated for such content.
>
> The idea makes sense to me, in principle.
> I can also pick some old files to delete or move outside Emacs.
Please do that. Meanwhile, I'll try to consolidate material now scattered
across multiple files where it makes sense to do so. The miscellaneous
humor files are an obvious target for this.
--
<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-10 15:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-09 14:02 RFC - cleaning up /etc Eric S. Raymond
2014-01-09 14:48 ` Samuel El-Borai
2014-01-09 15:09 ` Samuel El-Borai
2014-01-09 16:57 ` Glenn Morris
2014-01-09 17:42 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-01-09 19:50 ` Glenn Morris
2014-01-10 14:35 ` Richard Stallman
2014-01-10 15:51 ` Eric S. Raymond [this message]
2014-01-11 7:15 ` Richard Stallman
2014-01-11 10:17 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-01-11 18:37 ` Richard Stallman
2014-01-11 10:53 ` Ulrich Mueller
2014-01-11 20:01 ` Glenn Morris
2014-01-11 20:59 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-01-11 21:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-11 21:27 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-01-12 0:07 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-01-12 0:20 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-01-12 0:37 ` David Kastrup
2014-01-12 3:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-25 1:06 ` Progress report on git-blame (was: RFC - cleaning up /etc) David Kastrup
2014-01-25 7:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-25 8:59 ` Progress report on git-blame David Kastrup
2014-01-25 9:21 ` martin rudalics
2014-01-25 9:27 ` David Kastrup
2014-01-25 10:12 ` David Kastrup
2014-02-20 18:33 ` David Kastrup
2014-01-25 18:21 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2014-01-25 18:30 ` David Kastrup
2014-01-25 18:52 ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-01-25 18:59 ` David Kastrup
2014-01-25 19:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-25 19:44 ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-01-25 20:02 ` David Kastrup
2014-01-25 21:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-26 14:40 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2014-01-27 14:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-25 21:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-25 23:03 ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-01-26 1:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-26 17:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-26 19:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-26 19:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-26 22:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-26 6:30 ` David Kastrup
2014-01-26 15:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-25 8:28 ` David Engster
2014-01-25 9:14 ` David Kastrup
2014-01-12 3:03 ` RFC - cleaning up /etc Stefan Monnier
2014-01-12 13:46 ` Richard Stallman
2014-01-12 19:17 ` Glenn Morris
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