Kevin Ryde <use...@zip.com.au> writes:

> Rob Browning <r...@defaultvalue.org> writes:
>>
>> investigate our load-path handling more carefully, perhaps even more so,
>> given that Emacs has changed its behavior over the past couple of major
>> releases -- but I also think that it's probably not something that we
>> should attempt right now, this close to a release.
>
> Ok.  If took away the 24.2/site-lisp symlink as thought in the policy
> then I suppose the load-path would be cleaned up.

I suspect we need to keep the symlink, unless we want to deal with the
possiblity of having to "fix" a lot of other things (add-ons, etc.).

Here's one bit of rationale from emacs/debian/rules:

          # The version-specific site-lisp dir, say emacs/21.1/site-lisp, needs
          # to be in share/FLAVOR so that as we upgrade from 21.1 to 21.2,
          # etc., add-on package bits don't get left behind.
          mv $(pkgdir_common)/usr/share/emacs/$(runtime_ver)/site-lisp \
                  $(pkgdir_common)/usr/share/$(flavor)
          dh_link -p$(flavor)-common usr/share/$(flavor)/site-lisp \
                          usr/share/emacs/$(runtime_ver)/site-lisp

The symlink was added originally b/c without it, we ended up with a lot
of dangling X.Y directories.

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Rob Browning
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