On Sat, Aug 17, 2002 at 09:32:48PM -0400, Deepak Goel wrote: > > Hello > > Debian's emacs policy seems to be such that additional packages delete > the .el files after installing the package. The .el files hardly cost > any space in comparison to the .elc files, you might as well leave > them there--- we emacsers rely on .el files being right next to the > .elc files. I understand there's a emacs-el or such package that will > install the el files, but this is not true of packages. Thus, i don't > have the emacspeak files, etc. etc.
You wouldn't be confusing the directories /usr/share/emacs<version>/site-lisp/*, which contain the .elc files, and the directories /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/*, which contain the .el files, would you? I think we can close this report. Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, Queen Mary, Univ. of London website: http://www.maths.qmul.ac.uk/~jdg/ Debian GNU/Linux Developer, see: http://people.debian.org/~jdg/ Visit http://www.thehungersite.com/ to help feed the hungry