From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Request for site-lisp-directory
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 07:40:16 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fyzn1meg.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <wzvf8jk1h6.fsf@ordesa.cs.uu.nl> (Piet van Oostrum's message of "Wed, 23 Feb 2005 11:35:49 +0100")
> It is not only AUCTeX; I just use that as an example. I have more packages
> installed in site-lisp and some of them require a variable set to their
> location or a location of one of their files. Emacs knows the site-lisp
> directory because it puts it in load-path, so it could easily put it in a
> variable also.
The reason why packages use such variables is not that they can't find the
site-lisp directory, but that they don't know whether the package will be
installed in the site-lisp directory or elsewhere. For example, in many
cases it's installed in the user's home directory instead.
Stefan
prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-02-23 12:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-02-22 9:10 Request for site-lisp-directory Piet van Oostrum
2005-02-22 14:40 ` David Kastrup
2005-02-23 10:35 ` Piet van Oostrum
2005-02-23 11:20 ` David Kastrup
2005-02-23 12:40 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
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