From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Debian's idiosyncratic complexification of Emacs Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 22:20:28 -0400 Message-ID: References: <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> <20080715013845.GX3675@rzlab.ucr.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1216088457 9586 80.91.229.12 (15 Jul 2008 02:20:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 02:20:57 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 15 04:21:45 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 1KIaAh-0004zi-Qp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 04:21:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35473 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KIa9p-0007X7-Mg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 Jul 2008 22:20:49 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KIa9Z-0007RQ-Fx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Jul 2008 22:20:33 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KIa9Y-0007R3-03 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Jul 2008 22:20:33 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=41583 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KIa9X-0007Qz-Om for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Jul 2008 22:20:31 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.pppoe.ca ([206.248.154.182]:33361 helo=ironport2-out.teksavvy.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KIa9X-0008Kl-FE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Jul 2008 22:20:31 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Ahc/APOle0jO+IfCPGdsb2JhbACBWoZyiVoBAQEBLQGZY4Fo X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.30,363,1212379200"; d="scan'208";a="24346376" Original-Received: from 206-248-135-194.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([206.248.135.194]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP; 14 Jul 2008 22:20:28 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 3621885AB; Mon, 14 Jul 2008 22:20:28 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <20080715013845.GX3675@rzlab.ucr.edu> (Don Armstrong's message of "Mon, 14 Jul 2008 18:38:45 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:100712 Archived-At: > We don't include a content-free site-start.el; here is its content: > ;; Emacsen independent startup file. All of the various installed > ;; flavors of emacs (emacs 19, emacs 20, xemacs) will load this file > ;; at startup. Make sure any code you put here is emacs flavor > ;; independent. > ;; Package maintainers: do not have Debian packages edit this file. > ;; See the policy manual for the proper way to handle Emacs package > ;; initialization code. That qualifies as "content free" in my book. >> The only thing this does is to prevent the loading of the >> site-start.el in the standard Emacs place, i.e. >> /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/ (This is documented on page "Init >> File" of the Emacs manual.) > Configuration files such as site-start.el need to be in /etc by FHS, > and by Debian policy. Then they should put a symlink from /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.el to /etc/emacs/site-start.el. Stefan