From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Changing site-lisp without installing it Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2023 19:05:45 +0300 Message-ID: <83wmycw1pi.fsf@gnu.org> References: <838raszqfw.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="9583"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 03 18:06:16 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1qRaq8-0002Ec-BL for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 03 Aug 2023 18:06:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qRapY-00010W-Um; Thu, 03 Aug 2023 12:05:40 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qRapU-0000yo-Kf for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Aug 2023 12:05:36 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qRapU-0002KB-CP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Aug 2023 12:05:36 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=eFgMHd5CbTJCdcWxX0KA8i0TKJooQy9Uy4yIFcELw9c=; b=DdJ6xcs0IvJN F/ywCEjN/26RYz2IcA0bYoVYxxapSzItAdxeCCn5l2Hk0HtcQr2x86MV/IN2nMmbSe/RHWpys4PIn 4Yu2x96E6ruzTM2FGKEN9Vfo/+quCp2wJYOlXFkxnRmP4jwYBXm2UmMIVoHqOqjXDZv1a8tGkeOHq 6UiHG2nb7OgFvuq4Ga5bNcrt44etKdDXa0iwYU4FQT1cEYS9xhuq62lKBHFdj18KNatvScNxVnEhI yniqnIv6bnBxvEU0IemWlFtC93SLqGzu+xbQ9p2NHOilFOYRgX6r//gfsGQSAJ4ZFxa1C0+jK08LG LDBroMfgT7W2C5GaOP7mTQ==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qRapT-0003IY-SZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Aug 2023 12:05:36 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Spencer Baugh on Thu, 03 Aug 2023 11:58:14 -0400) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:144571 Archived-At: > From: Spencer Baugh > Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2023 11:58:14 -0400 > > Eli Zaretskii 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.