Hi, Axel Beckert wrote: > David Bremner wrote in > https://lists.debian.org/debian-emacsen/2015/12/msg00003.html: > > What about a script called spacemacs that runs something like > > > > emacs --no-init-file --load /usr/share/emacs/.../spacemacs-init.el > > This sounds like the right approach to me, btw.
But there's much more to do if someone wants to get this into Debian: Upon start, spacemacs contacts tons of websites to download additional modules and stuff: >From the *Messages* buffer: […] Loading /home/abe/tmp/spacemacs/.emacs.d/core/core-load-paths.el (source)...done Contacting host: melpa.org:443 Importing package-keyring.gpg...done Contacting host: melpa.org:443 Contacting host: orgmode.org:80 Importing package-keyring.gpg...done Contacting host: orgmode.org:80 Importing package-keyring.gpg...done Contacting host: elpa.gnu.org:443 [2 times] Contacting host: melpa.org:443 Parsing tar file...done […] Done (Total of 2 files compiled, 1 skipped) Contacting host: melpa.org:443 gnutls.c: [0] (Emacs) fatal error: The TLS connection was non-properly terminated. […] For a package, this clearly needs to be disabled (by default at least) and replaced by package dependencies. > There is already something similar in the FAQ at > https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs/blob/master/doc/FAQ.org#try-spacemacs-without-modifying-my-existing-emacs-configuration > but unfortunately it works by modifying $HOME which is definitely the > wrong way for a package. That's the way I tried it out. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>, http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5 `- | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E 1D89 9593 0EDE
