From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Changing site-lisp without installing it
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2023 19:05:45 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83wmycw1pi.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ierv8dw86eh.fsf@janestreet.com> (message from Spencer Baugh on Thu, 03 Aug 2023 11:58:14 -0400)
> From: Spencer Baugh <sbaugh@janestreet.com>
> Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2023 11:58:14 -0400
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > I use site-lisp, if by that you mean the site-lisp directory that is
> > put on load-path.
>
> The system-wide one in /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp?
Yes.
> Don't you need root to change that one? Isn't that inconvenient?
On my systems, I have the root privileges, so this isn't inconvenient.
Why don't you on your systems? I understand that you are the de-facto
administrator, since you set up things for your users?
Anyway, what's inconvenient in using the system-wide site-lisp? If
access rights is the issue, Tramp should solve that cleanly, I think.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-08-03 16:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-08-02 21:14 Changing site-lisp without installing it Spencer Baugh
2023-08-03 0:25 ` Emanuel Berg
2023-08-03 4:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-08-03 15:58 ` Spencer Baugh
2023-08-03 16:05 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2023-08-03 18:46 ` Spencer Baugh
2023-08-04 5:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-08-03 16:10 ` Emanuel Berg
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