Hi Tassilo, Tassilo Horn <t...@gnu.org> writes:
> "Dr. Werner Fink" <wer...@suse.de> writes: > >> Hmmm, I'm a bit old fashion ... for me the question rises how to get a >> system wide automatically updating installation for a multi user >> workstation from an ELPA channel? > > See (info "(emacs) Package Files"): > > In addition to ‘package-user-dir’, Emacs looks for installed packages > in the directories listed in ‘package-directory-list’. These > directories are meant for system administrators to make Emacs packages > available system-wide; Emacs itself never installs packages there. The > package subdirectories for ‘package-directory-list’ are laid out in the > same way as in ‘package-user-dir’. What does the above mean in practical terms? I don't see how one can say: Emacs, please install this auctex-from-elpa.tar under `package-directory-list'. So a downstream distro manager has to install AUCTeX from ELPA locally, and then repack that installation and distribute it for pure unpacking in `package-directory-list'? Or am I missing something? Best, Arash
