From: Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, Federico Beffa <beffa@fbengineering.ch>
Subject: Re: Why do we use ".../share/emacs/site-lisp/guix.d/"?
Date: Sun, 08 May 2016 22:58:05 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wpn4uxte.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874ma85w88.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic \=\?utf-8\?Q\?Court\=C3\=A8s\=22'\?\= \=\?utf-8\?Q\?s\?\= message of "Sun, 08 May 2016 18:51:35 +0200")
Ludovic Courtès (2016-05-08 19:51 +0300) wrote:
> Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com> skribis:
>
>> I should have asked this when emacs-build-system was introduced. Why
>> does it put emacs packages in sub-directories of
>> "/share/emacs/site-lisp/guix.d"? It looks more natural to me just to
>> use "/share/emacs/site-lisp".
>>
>> I don't see any potential conflicts here: some packages will put their
>> elisp files right in the site-lisp dir (gnu-build-system does it by
>> default), and emacs-build-system can just use
>> "/share/emacs/site-lisp/<package>" sub-directories.
>>
>> "guix.d" seems redundant to me. What do people think?
>
> I think there was a Good Reason™. Isn’t it that we wanted to mimic what
> package.el does, while avoiding collisions with package.el-installed
> software?
Yes, the Good Reason was to avoid potential collisions of thousands of
emacs packages. I probably wasn't clear enough, I just wanted to say
that "guix.d" part of a package file name can be removed. I suggest
this:
.../share/emacs/site-lisp/<package>
instead of this (currently used):
.../share/emacs/site-lisp/guix.d/<package>
I can work on a patch for this change, if it sounds reasonable.
--
Alex
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Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-05-08 10:33 Why do we use ".../share/emacs/site-lisp/guix.d/"? Alex Kost
2016-05-08 16:23 ` Federico Beffa
2016-05-08 19:51 ` Alex Kost
2016-05-08 20:06 ` Federico Beffa
2016-05-09 6:42 ` Federico Beffa
2016-05-09 9:13 ` Alex Kost
2016-05-16 21:15 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-05-17 18:14 ` Alex Kost
2016-05-19 12:02 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-05-20 6:53 ` Federico Beffa
2016-05-20 21:00 ` Alex Kost
2016-05-21 10:47 ` Federico Beffa
2016-05-21 21:39 ` Alex Kost
2016-05-22 20:28 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-05-08 16:51 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-05-08 19:58 ` Alex Kost [this message]
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