From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: `remote-shell-program' should be customizable Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 09:53:02 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1097934899 4256 80.91.229.6 (16 Oct 2004 13:54:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:54:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 16 15:54:53 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CIp1J-0006mR-00 for ; Sat, 16 Oct 2004 15:54:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CIp8V-0007rb-2f for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 16 Oct 2004 10:02:19 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CIp6n-00070P-3e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Oct 2004 10:00:33 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CIp6l-0006yu-6g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Oct 2004 10:00:31 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CIp6k-0006xo-VG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Oct 2004 10:00:30 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CIozX-0006Ui-Cb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Oct 2004 09:53:03 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1CIozW-00038Q-Ts; Sat, 16 Oct 2004 09:53:02 -0400 Original-To: Dave Love In-reply-to: (message from Dave Love on Thu, 14 Oct 2004 22:33:54 +0100) 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: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:28479 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:28479 * Most of this should be done at runtime, not in paths.el, which is dumped. There's no reason that rmail-spool-directory should be the same on the target system as the build system, for instance -- it's rather random on systems I'm familiar with. That sounds like a good improvement, if it is done right, so that any settings made by the user are not overriddem once relevant packages are read. Want to send patches? However, this may as well wait till after the current release.