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Re: Request for site-lisp-directory


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: Request for site-lisp-directory
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 07:40:16 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux)

> 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




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