[Removed CC to <debian-mentors>] [You ("Davide G. M. Salvetti")] >1) AucTeX has many .el's which should be shipped byte-compiled: should I >compile them with some specific Emacs flavor or doesn't it matter which >Emacs I'll use? (Please consider that, AFAIK, XEmacs comes with its own >AucTeX, so AucTeX should probably care only about GNU/Emacs; I'm not sure, >about that, though, mainly 'cause I don't use XEmacs :-).)
Yes sir that is correct at this point. Word is that eventually XEmacs will unbundle a lot of the lisp packages it comes with but for now that is the case. With xemacs19-19.16-1 I have AucTeX v 9.7l. >3) Current AucTeX package puts its data (.elc's) in /usr/lib/emacs/common; >should I put them in /usr/share/emacs/whatever_is_more_appropriate or >something else instead? (Please, consider FHS and FSSTND, and the fact >many packages already put stuff in /usr/share.) I'd leave it where it is. Or else put it in share and symlink from /usr/ lib/emacs/common. We'll embrace FHS in 2.1 or so; right now it's FSSTD which is stipulated by policy. >4) AucTeX needs to periodically scan (La)TeX style files to keep itself in >touch with what one has installed on his machine; it does this by >cron.weekly. Current AucTeX package puts resulting files under /usr >(precisely just where it puts its data: /usr/lib/emacs/common); I believe >I should put things under /var, instead: any comments, please? Yes, /var/lib/emacs/auctex perhaps? >5) Current AucTeX package puts its configuration files directly under >/etc/elisp: is this still good behavior? Yes, I think so, although Robert Browning was doing some Emacs 20 (?) work which would imping upon all this and the byte-compilation issues. .....A. P. [EMAIL PROTECTED]<URL:http://www.onShore.com/> -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .