From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Creating (or not) the directories in --locallisppath Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 16:15:35 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1371759349 434 80.91.229.3 (20 Jun 2013 20:15:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 20:15:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs developers To: Juanma Barranquero Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 20 22:15:49 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 1UplGi-0007ZH-3d for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Jun 2013 22:15:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45211 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UplGh-0004Bo-MD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Jun 2013 16:15:43 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52030) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UplGb-00043i-St for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Jun 2013 16:15:39 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UplGa-0006iV-N0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Jun 2013 16:15:37 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.182]:64136) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UplGa-0006iO-Jw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Jun 2013 16:15:36 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av4EABK/CFFFpZVy/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IeAQEEAVYeBQULCw4mEhQYDSSIHgbBLZEKA6R6gV6DEw X-IPAS-Result: Av4EABK/CFFFpZVy/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IeAQEEAVYeBQULCw4mEhQYDSSIHgbBLZEKA6R6gV6DEw X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.84,565,1355115600"; d="scan'208";a="16826014" Original-Received: from 69-165-149-114.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([69.165.149.114]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 20 Jun 2013 16:15:30 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id D9913630ED; Thu, 20 Jun 2013 16:15:35 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Juanma Barranquero's message of "Thu, 20 Jun 2013 04:33:17 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.182 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:160777 Archived-At: > IMHO, Emacs should not create these dirs, as if the user needs passing > locallispath, it is likely it points outside the Emacs installation > tree and doesn't seem something Emacs should worry about (or dare to > touch). Also, it seems that it wouldn't play well with staged installs > via DESTDIR... I'd tend to agree, Stefan