Rafael Laboissiere wrote: > * Colin Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001-10-26 05:11]: > > > Jens Peter Secher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > OK. [This "general rule" should be added to the Emacs Policy, then.] > > > > Agreed. > > What about the patch below? (I just did some cut & paste from the present > thread. Colin and Peter will recognize their words.) > > --- debian-emacs-policy Fri Oct 26 12:55:09 2001 > +++ debian-emacs-policy-new Fri Oct 26 13:11:48 2001 > @@ -219,6 +219,16 @@ > file. emacsen-common will make sure that the install/remove > scripts are ordered to respect inter-add-on package dependencies. > > + E) Each add-on package may use debconf to ask site-specific > + configuration questions. As a general rule, packages should > + prompt if their general setup overrides the usual emacsen > + behaviour. Just setting up a few autoloads and adding items to > + auto-mode-alist are no strong reasons for prompting, especially > + if there is no other entry in auto-mode-alist for the filetypes > + added. Keep in mind that users can always override things, since > + their ~/.emacs (or ~/.xemacs/init.el) is evaluated after the > + Debian site packages. > + > 7) Mandatory binary symlink > > Each emacsen main package must have a symlink
:-) I like it! Peter
