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Re: BBDB v3 approaching release
From: |
Ulrich Mueller |
Subject: |
Re: BBDB v3 approaching release |
Date: |
Thu, 30 May 2013 11:37:13 +0200 |
>>>>> On Wed, 29 May 2013, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> How do I configure install locations of a package if it's in ELPA
>> format?
> You don't.
Why is this better than having them configurable? Especially, why are
you asking that a package like BBDB that has a perfectly working
autoconf build system should _remove_ it?
>> Especially, if the package has non-lisp components?
> You leave them alongside the Elisp files.
Emacs itself uses a different layout and keeps non-lisp files in
different directories like etc or info. (Hopefully there are no plans
to change that?)
For example, for Info files it's really a PITA if they're not
collected in one (or at least, few) central locations.
> And when you need them, your Elisp package will find them by looking
> around itself (it can get access to its own location via
> `load-file-name').
This means that anyone who wants to adhere to some standard like FHS
must move files around manually. I had to do this way too often when
packaging things for Gentoo.
Most packages are at least friendly enough and spend a defvar or
defcustom that allows to configure these directories (often with a
fallback to the above-mentioned load-file-name location).
Ulrich
- Re: BBDB v3 approaching release, (continued)
- Re: BBDB v3 approaching release, Jambunathan K, 2013/05/30
- Re: BBDB v3 approaching release, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2013/05/30
- Re: BBDB v3 approaching release, Roland Winkler, 2013/05/30
- Re: BBDB v3 approaching release, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2013/05/30
- Re: BBDB v3 approaching release, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2013/05/30
- Re: BBDB v3 approaching release, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/05/30
- Re: BBDB v3 approaching release, Andreas Schwab, 2013/05/30
- Re: BBDB v3 approaching release, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2013/05/30
- Re: BBDB v3 approaching release, Tom Tromey, 2013/05/31
- Re: BBDB v3 approaching release, Ted Zlatanov, 2013/05/31
- Re: BBDB v3 approaching release,
Ulrich Mueller <=
- Re: BBDB v3 approaching release, Roland Winkler, 2013/05/30
- Re: BBDB v3 approaching release, Ulrich Mueller, 2013/05/30
- Re: BBDB v3 approaching release, Ted Zlatanov, 2013/05/30
- Re: BBDB v3 approaching release, Stefan Monnier, 2013/05/30
- Re: BBDB v3 approaching release, Ted Zlatanov, 2013/05/30
- Re: BBDB v3 approaching release, Stefan Monnier, 2013/05/30
- Re: BBDB v3 approaching release, Ted Zlatanov, 2013/05/30