From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tom Tromey Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: user-controlled load-path extension: load-dir Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 07:27:29 -0700 Message-ID: References: <87oc5kax8l.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <8739mwnj3v.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87oc5kjarb.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <878vwnnrfy.fsf@hi-media-techno.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1299767862 2972 80.91.229.12 (10 Mar 2011 14:37:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 14:37:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Chong Yidong , Ted Zlatanov , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dimitri Fontaine Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 10 15:37:38 2011 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Pxgzb-0001bj-0d for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Mar 2011 15:37:38 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51193 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PxgzV-0003uv-Aw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Mar 2011 09:37:25 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=54356 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pxgq0-0007Qh-GX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Mar 2011 09:27:37 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pxgpz-0003gC-2q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Mar 2011 09:27:36 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:57339) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pxgpy-0003fs-Qm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Mar 2011 09:27:35 -0500 Original-Received: from int-mx02.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx02.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.12]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p2AERWrv001392 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Thu, 10 Mar 2011 09:27:32 -0500 Original-Received: from ns3.rdu.redhat.com (ns3.rdu.redhat.com [10.11.255.199]) by int-mx02.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id p2AERW0L001710; Thu, 10 Mar 2011 09:27:32 -0500 Original-Received: from opsy.redhat.com (ovpn01.gateway.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.9.1]) by ns3.rdu.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id p2AERVFw010272; Thu, 10 Mar 2011 09:27:31 -0500 Original-Received: by opsy.redhat.com (Postfix, from userid 500) id 946F93797CD; Thu, 10 Mar 2011 07:27:30 -0700 (MST) X-Attribution: Tom In-Reply-To: <878vwnnrfy.fsf@hi-media-techno.com> (Dimitri Fontaine's message of "Thu, 10 Mar 2011 12:30:25 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.67 on 10.5.11.12 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 209.132.183.28 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:137035 Archived-At: >>>>> "Dimitri" == Dimitri Fontaine writes: Dimitri> The difference is that I'm after a solution where it's possible to Dimitri> achieve that with *no* editing of the user-init-file. At all. So that Dimitri> my el-get installer will just drop a file in `user-load-dir`. Your use case is completely solved by package.el. First, package el-get as a package (trivial). Second, have an autoload cookie in el-get that loads the code from some directory. Why do you think you need anything more? Tom