Rob Browning r...@defaultvalue.org writes:
Kevin Ryde use...@zip.com.au writes:
Hmm. I suppose if an add-on is removed by a flavour upgrade and that
remove fails for some reason then bits are left behind in what's now an
old directory.
I think there were probably all kinds of reasons --
Kevin Ryde use...@zip.com.au writes:
Hmm. I suppose if an add-on is removed by a flavour upgrade and that
remove fails for some reason then bits are left behind in what's now an
old directory.
I think there were probably all kinds of reasons -- but I'm fairly
certain that we did end up with
Rob Browning r...@defaultvalue.org writes:
# 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.
Hmm. I suppose if an add-on is removed
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
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
Kevin Ryde use...@zip.com.au writes:
Rob Browning r...@defaultvalue.org writes:
I suppose one argument for keeping the symlink is the possibility that
Emacs or add-on packages may look for that particular directory by name
(which sounds plausible to me).
Sounds likely ... change the policy
Rob Browning wrote (02 Dec 2012 20:34:59 GMT) :
For now, I'm inclined to fix the /usr/local issue, and then hope to
continue this discussion after the release.
Plausible?
I think this totally makes sense.
Thanks for tackling this RC bug :)
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Rob Browning wrote (02 Dec 2012 20:34:59 GMT) :
For now, I'm inclined to fix the /usr/local issue, and then hope to
continue this discussion after the release.
Plausible?
I think this totally makes sense.
Thanks for tackling this RC bug :)
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