From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tyler Smith Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs and XDG Base Dir Spec was: persistent storage for Emacs packages Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 09:19:30 -0400 Message-ID: References: <201310202119.19244.thomas@koch.ro> <17329_1382360340_52652514_17329_164_1_1c38477173ab4b6cb80a8c50bd6dd0e9@EXHUB2010-1.campus.MCGILL.CA> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=047d7bd76e785f140a04e940225f X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1382371588 3662 80.91.229.3 (21 Oct 2013 16:06:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 16:06:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Thomas Koch , =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jan_Dj=E4rv?= , "emacs-devel@gnu.org" To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 21 18:06:33 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VYHzy-0005A1-V7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Oct 2013 18:06:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40676 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VYHzy-0000yP-G8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Oct 2013 12:06:30 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50809) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VYFOV-0000KM-UH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Oct 2013 09:19:41 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VYFOU-0001EL-LD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Oct 2013 09:19:39 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-pd0-x229.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400e:c02::229]:40409) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VYFOP-0001DE-1s; Mon, 21 Oct 2013 09:19:33 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-pd0-f169.google.com with SMTP id q10so6252191pdj.28 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 2013 06:19:30 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject :from:to:cc:content-type; bh=I4FhNabJ7v3VBMndeHJ+Zq5zb71KtiqcK4JaHCGB6VY=; b=KA+JqGejCPypvFnZGqFt4VtfQMM8fJjOQQBCgbU/1Bm5VUMzBPKYOYVzOdFaiV4vrC iSm38EDNEhKCfvm8CC/AfucNEiiLoE0mO/RnNpB8CXWSKCXKH8y1kl3QVg1VSpgCQLU5 pjACdFrFiJc1nUPvmh71Wmp3ET/MZLGdZZ53m2FKeTqA5Ks773NpOxmkd043NMwl7nE2 osQL1CWvHQW3Jk9bilbz3rZGZ4z7oAgfjaslmlrENfIACdQHu0/kTGMLYKQUk1/cNXD+ 4gWcUApABFYR98iqIHbabEIi7Jj9PoqpM29hBLShDKn1awj4/swyTZFKn8wqOPUkQZ0G rgEw== X-Received: by 10.68.196.69 with SMTP id ik5mr3105856pbc.132.1382361570675; Mon, 21 Oct 2013 06:19:30 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.66.163.74 with HTTP; Mon, 21 Oct 2013 06:19:30 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <17329_1382360340_52652514_17329_164_1_1c38477173ab4b6cb80a8c50bd6dd0e9@EXHUB2010-1.campus.MCGILL.CA> X-Google-Sender-Auth: FVvfDNqlLltR-QQR_LBtlU6zWAA X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:400e:c02::229 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 12:06:27 -0400 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:164420 Archived-At: --047d7bd76e785f140a04e940225f Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 8:58 AM, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > Still, we have the problem with ~/.emacs.d that many users put their > elisp packages in there and then add it to their load-path. > > That's exactly what I do. What is wrong with this, and what is the preferred alternative? Thanks, Tyler --047d7bd76e785f140a04e940225f Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
On M= on, Oct 21, 2013 at 8:58 AM, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontrea= l.ca> wrote:

Still, we have the problem with ~/.emacs.d that many users put their
elisp packages in there and then add it to their load-path.=A0

That's exactly what I do. What is wrong with this, and what is = the preferred alternative?

Thanks,

Tyler
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