From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Davis Herring" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: package.el Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 16:48:53 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <54877.128.165.123.18.1179791333.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> References: <2cd46e7f0705101124r72000f78xdf05d18ca815ca57@mail.gmail.com> <17991.47259.210100.801472@localhost.localdomain> <85d50wq6a9.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> Reply-To: herring@lanl.gov NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1179791345 30525 80.91.229.12 (21 May 2007 23:49:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 23:49:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: David Reitter , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: tromey@redhat.com Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 22 01:49:03 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HqHcd-00075l-9k for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 May 2007 01:49:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HqHcc-0007Cl-UI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 May 2007 19:49:02 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HqHcZ-0007CU-IX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 May 2007 19:48:59 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HqHcX-0007CI-MH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 May 2007 19:48:58 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HqHcX-0007CF-JN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 May 2007 19:48:57 -0400 Original-Received: from mailwasher.lanl.gov ([192.65.95.54] helo=mailwasher-b.lanl.gov) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HqHcX-0007mi-3A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 May 2007 19:48:57 -0400 Original-Received: from mailrelay2.lanl.gov (mailrelay2.lanl.gov [128.165.4.103]) by mailwasher-b.lanl.gov (8.13.8/8.13.8/(ccn-5)) with ESMTP id l4LNmsCS008052 for ; Mon, 21 May 2007 17:48:54 -0600 Original-Received: from webmail1.lanl.gov (webmail1.lanl.gov [128.165.4.106]) by mailrelay2.lanl.gov (8.13.8/8.13.8/(ccn-5)) with ESMTP id l4LNmrnA024569; Mon, 21 May 2007 17:48:53 -0600 Original-Received: from webmail1.lanl.gov (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by webmail1.lanl.gov (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id l4LNmrCM012085; Mon, 21 May 2007 17:48:53 -0600 Original-Received: (from apache@localhost) by webmail1.lanl.gov (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11/Submit) id l4LNmr6V012083; Mon, 21 May 2007 16:48:53 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: webmail1.lanl.gov: apache set sender to herring@lanl.gov using -f Original-Received: from 128.165.123.18 (SquirrelMail authenticated user 196434) by webmail.lanl.gov with HTTP; Mon, 21 May 2007 16:48:53 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.8-4.el3.4lanl X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal X-PMX-Version: 4.7.1.128075 X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 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: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:71555 Archived-At: > David> Well, in a distribution, this is what one wants to customize - > David> simply because ~/.emacs.d is not a [standard] directory on all > David> operating systems. > > I simply followed existing practice that I found in Emacs. FWIW I > think it would make sense to make this a customizable setting used > everywhere that "~/.emacs.d" is currently used. > > Does Aquamacs have a setting for this? package.el could conditionally > use that. This (the customizable setting) has been discussed before[1], and I even offered to go find all the hardcoded ~/.emacs.d/ usages, but there wasn't much evident interest. Is there now, especially given the issue of differing standards among OSes? Davis [1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2005-08/msg00317.html -- This product is sold by volume, not by mass. If it appears too dense or too sparse, it is because mass-energy conversion has occurred during shipping.