From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Christian Egli <christian.egli@sbs.ch>,
Roland Winkler <winkler@gnu.org>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: BBDB v3 approaching release
Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 11:37:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20903.7625.861080.943448@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv38t5to8w.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
>>>>> On Wed, 29 May 2013, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> How do I configure install locations of a package if it's in ELPA
>> format?
> You don't.
Why is this better than having them configurable? Especially, why are
you asking that a package like BBDB that has a perfectly working
autoconf build system should _remove_ it?
>> Especially, if the package has non-lisp components?
> You leave them alongside the Elisp files.
Emacs itself uses a different layout and keeps non-lisp files in
different directories like etc or info. (Hopefully there are no plans
to change that?)
For example, for Info files it's really a PITA if they're not
collected in one (or at least, few) central locations.
> And when you need them, your Elisp package will find them by looking
> around itself (it can get access to its own location via
> `load-file-name').
This means that anyone who wants to adhere to some standard like FHS
must move files around manually. I had to do this way too often when
packaging things for Gentoo.
Most packages are at least friendly enough and spend a defvar or
defcustom that allows to configure these directories (often with a
fallback to the above-mentioned load-file-name location).
Ulrich
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-05-30 9:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-05-27 8:18 BBDB v3 approaching release Roland Winkler
2013-05-27 8:49 ` Leo Liu
2013-05-27 15:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-05-27 16:13 ` Roland Winkler
2013-05-27 16:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-05-27 19:28 ` Roland Winkler
2013-05-27 19:35 ` Dmitry Gutov
2013-05-27 20:18 ` Roland Winkler
2013-05-28 5:32 ` Ulrich Mueller
2013-05-28 7:49 ` Roland Winkler
2013-05-28 12:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-05-27 20:59 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <87obbvwgw6.fsf@sbs.ch>
2013-05-28 21:23 ` Roland Winkler
2013-05-28 22:29 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-05-29 13:27 ` Roland Winkler
2013-05-29 16:45 ` Ulrich Mueller
2013-05-29 22:29 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-05-30 7:14 ` Roland Winkler
2013-05-30 7:57 ` Jambunathan K
2013-05-30 8:04 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-05-30 11:16 ` Roland Winkler
2013-05-30 17:25 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-05-30 17:55 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-05-30 18:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-05-30 20:47 ` Andreas Schwab
2013-05-31 3:50 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-05-31 14:14 ` Tom Tromey
2013-05-31 18:30 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-05-31 14:42 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-05-30 9:37 ` Ulrich Mueller [this message]
2013-05-30 11:24 ` Roland Winkler
2013-05-30 12:48 ` Ulrich Mueller
2013-05-30 14:57 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-05-30 17:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-05-30 20:31 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-05-30 14:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-05-30 15:03 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-06-01 14:34 ` Steinar Bang
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