From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: -Q / --no-site-file and site-lisp/
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:17:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4860E5C9.5050701@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r6an1fhg.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de>
Tassilo Horn wrote:
> Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> writes:
>
> Hi Reiner,
>
>>>> .../share/emacs/site-lisp is in the load path, even with `-Q'. One
>>>> has to keep that in mind. Which I didn't do either. ;)
>>> Hm, wouldn't it be sensible to remove it from `load-path' if -Q was
>>> given?
>> I think so. See
>> <http://thread.gmane.org/v9lkcq9nzu.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de>:
>>
>> ,----
>> | From: Reiner Steib
>> | Subject: Should -Q / --no-site-file eval `subdirs.el'?
>> | Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel
>> | Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2007 14:15:01 +0200
>> | Message-ID: <v9lkcq9nzu.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de>
>> |
>> | Hi,
>> |
>> | when running `emacs -Q', I was surprised to see site-lisp/*/ in my
>> | `load-path'. Although the manual (cmdargs.texi [1]) doesn't say
>> | anything about `subdirs.el' (it's not mentioned in the manual at
>> | all), I'd expect "minimum customizations"[1] *not* to modify
>> | `load-path'. E.g. I have some other Gnus version installed in
>> | site-lisp. I'd expect Gnus 5.11 from Emacs 22 after `M-x gnus RET',
>> | but I get the version from site-lisp.
>> `----
>>
>> Richard replied:
>>
>> ,----
>> | From: Richard Stallman
>> | Subject: Re: Should -Q / --no-site-file eval `subdirs.el'?
>> | Date: 2007-08-05 20:54:34 GMT
>> |
>> | I think it should load subdirs.el. Hiding the packages available on
>> | your site is not the purpose.
>> `----
>
> Well, if that's Richard's opinion, that's fine. But there should be
> some option (i.e. --vanilla, -V) which is like -Q and does not load any
> external packages.
Do you mean "does not alter load-path" by running any site-lisp/subdirs.el?
I think that would be useful. (Maybe there could be a --no-site-dir in
addition to -V?)
> We always say "give a recipe starting with emacs -Q", but that's not
> sufficient if the bug is in some external package in site-lisp/.
>
> Bye,
> Tassilo
>
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-24 12:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-17 16:15 The new newsticker doesn't show my feeds Tassilo Horn
2008-06-17 21:33 ` Ulf Jasper
2008-06-18 6:48 ` Tassilo Horn
2008-06-18 18:44 ` Ulf Jasper
2008-06-18 19:20 ` Tassilo Horn
2008-06-18 19:54 ` Ulf Jasper
2008-06-18 20:23 ` Tassilo Horn
2008-06-19 17:25 ` Ulf Jasper
2008-06-19 19:22 ` Tassilo Horn
2008-06-19 19:43 ` Ulf Jasper
[not found] ` <87fxr96vyr.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de>
2008-06-19 20:18 ` Ulf Jasper
2008-06-19 20:24 ` Tassilo Horn
2008-06-19 20:34 ` Ulf Jasper
2008-06-19 20:54 ` Tassilo Horn
2008-06-20 16:10 ` Ulf Jasper
2008-06-21 10:51 ` Tassilo Horn
2008-06-21 17:46 ` Ulf Jasper
2008-06-23 7:07 ` Tassilo Horn
2008-06-23 18:00 ` -Q / --no-site-file and site-lisp/ (was: The new newsticker doesn't show my feeds) Reiner Steib
2008-06-24 7:03 ` -Q / --no-site-file and site-lisp/ Tassilo Horn
2008-06-24 12:17 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail) [this message]
2008-06-24 15:54 ` Tassilo Horn
2008-06-24 15:59 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
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