From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: subdirs.el installation in site-lisp Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 19:42:04 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1053393298 29115 80.91.224.249 (20 May 2003 01:14:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 01:14:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Tue May 20 03:14:54 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19HviQ-0007ZE-00 for ; Tue, 20 May 2003 03:14:54 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19HvsT-0003py-00 for ; Tue, 20 May 2003 03:25:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19HupR-0001lp-My for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Mon, 19 May 2003 20:18:05 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19Hun9-0001HS-Tq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 May 2003 20:15:43 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19HuZz-0008Jg-NH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 May 2003 20:02:08 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19HuGa-0006Hp-DT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 May 2003 19:42:04 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.20) id 19HuGa-0000qF-4U; Mon, 19 May 2003 19:42:04 -0400 Original-To: Dave Love In-reply-to: (message from Dave Love on Sun, 18 May 2003 21:15:53 +0100) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:14008 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:14008 I think the subdirs.el installed in site-lisp should do nothing if `site-run-file' is nil. I don't think I agree. This file will just make various subdirs available for Emacs to search for files to load. If Emacs does not lod this subdirs.el file, it will still see the files directly in site-lisp, but it won't see the files in its subdirs. That seems rather inconsistent and not useful.