From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Debian's idiosyncratic complexification of Emacs Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:22:32 +0200 Message-ID: <86mykhonuv.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> References: <87skug6tq5.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <4eb0089f0807111345h13eccdds9b2cf43370b94074@mail.gmail.com> <4eb0089f0807121340x5e26f6dbve03ef50b238f3a3a@mail.gmail.com> <87k5fph5rh.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <20080713214648.GB1076@muc.de> <487A783B.7060603@gmail.com> <20080713232635.GD1076@muc.de> <85od51id2t.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <20080714204242.GH6711@volo.donarmstrong.com> <20080714223059.GG3445@muc.de> <8763r858dx.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <85ej5vbpzm.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <87iqv5kiy5.fsf@anzu.internal.golden-gryphon.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1216221831 6723 80.91.229.12 (16 Jul 2008 15:23:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:23:51 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 16 17:24:39 2008 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 1KJ8rN-0005Xo-AK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:24:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50086 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KJ8qU-0005dt-N0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:23:10 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KJ8pw-0005MD-Vb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:22:37 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KJ8pv-0005L1-7r for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:22:36 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=42084 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KJ8pv-0005Kr-0x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:22:35 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.quinscape.de ([212.29.44.217]:36540) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KJ8pu-00011e-6l for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:22:34 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail-ldap/ctrl 12825 invoked from network); 16 Jul 2008 15:22:31 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO lola.quinscape.zz) ([10.0.3.43]) (envelope-sender ) by quinx.quinscape.de (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 16 Jul 2008 15:22:31 -0000 Original-Received: by lola.quinscape.zz (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 8AFFB8F046; Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:22:32 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <87iqv5kiy5.fsf@anzu.internal.golden-gryphon.com> (Manoj Srivastava's message of "Wed, 16 Jul 2008 09:22:10 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-AntiVirus: checked by AntiVir MailGate (version: 2.1.3-2; AVE: 7.8.0.68; VDF: 7.0.5.126; host: quinx) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:100813 Archived-At: Manoj Srivastava writes: > Now, I think it is a fine idea to hard-link the .el files into > all these separate emacs flavour directories, and perhaps the policy > can be evolved to specify that, so you always find the .el files in > the same directory as the .elc files. Should be symlinks, not hardlinks. Hardlinks across directory hierarchies can't be depended on since mount points can be anywhere. -- David Kastrup