From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: package.el Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 01:56:49 +0200 Message-ID: <465231C1.1060403@gmail.com> References: <2cd46e7f0705101124r72000f78xdf05d18ca815ca57@mail.gmail.com> <17991.47259.210100.801472@localhost.localdomain> <85d50wq6a9.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <54877.128.165.123.18.1179791333.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1179791828 32263 80.91.229.12 (21 May 2007 23:57:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 23:57:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: tromey@redhat.com, David Reitter , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: herring@lanl.gov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 22 01:57:06 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HqHkP-0008Aw-NS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 May 2007 01:57:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HqHkP-0000f3-DK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 May 2007 19:57:05 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HqHkL-0000bk-A3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 May 2007 19:57:01 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HqHkI-0000UE-JF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 May 2007 19:56:59 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HqHkI-0000U8-Gw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 May 2007 19:56:58 -0400 Original-Received: from ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.212]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HqHkI-0000NT-3g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 May 2007 19:56:58 -0400 Original-Received: from c83-254-145-24.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.145.24]:63415 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.66) (envelope-from ) id 1HqHkA-0006X9-5y; Tue, 22 May 2007 01:56:54 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070326 Thunderbird/2.0.0.0 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: <54877.128.165.123.18.1179791333.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 000742-0, 2007-05-21), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1HqHkA-0006X9-5y. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net 1HqHkA-0006X9-5y 5555d12ea391896e4ca3536906ae44b8 X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:71557 Archived-At: Davis Herring wrote: >> David> Well, in a distribution, this is what one wants to customize - >> David> simply because ~/.emacs.d is not a [standard] directory on all >> David> operating systems. >> >> I simply followed existing practice that I found in Emacs. FWIW I >> think it would make sense to make this a customizable setting used >> everywhere that "~/.emacs.d" is currently used. >> >> Does Aquamacs have a setting for this? package.el could conditionally >> use that. > > This (the customizable setting) has been discussed before[1], and I even > offered to go find all the hardcoded ~/.emacs.d/ usages, but there wasn't > much evident interest. Is there now, especially given the issue of > differing standards among OSes? Sounds like a good change to me.