Akira> The variable "flavor" is certainly used in startup file for
Akira> some packages. However, unfortunately I can't figure out where
Akira> this strange variable is defined at. What's more, emacs says
Akira> "Symbol's value as variable is void: flavor" for "M-:
Akira> flavor". I can't understand what's going on. Could anyone give
Akira> some advice for this stupid variable for me?
I'm not a developer (yet), but I'll have a shot, anyway :-)
This is from /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/debian-startup.el:
(defun debian-startup (flavor)
;; Our handling of debian-emacs-flavor here is truly weird, but we
;; have to do it like this because some of the emacsen flavors
;; didn't DWIM in their startup sequence. I wasn't as clear as I
;; should have been in debian-policy, but they were also
;; technically violating policy.
;; It's even weirder now. I've changed policy back to the old way,
;; but I'm also doing some sanity checking here and making sure that
;; even debian-emacs-flavor gets set no matter what. I'm in a rush
;; right now, but I'll come back later and make all this cleaner and
;; better documented. Sorry.
(if (not (boundp 'debian-emacs-flavor))
(defconst debian-emacs-flavor flavor
"A symbol representing the particular debian flavor of emacs that's
running. Something like 'emacs20, 'xemacs20, etc.")
(let ((common-dir "/etc/emacs/site-start.d")
(flavor-dir (concat "/etc/" (symbol-name flavor) "/site-start.d")))
(debian-run-directories flavor-dir common-dir))))
Since Emacs Lisp uses dynamic binding, the parameter "flavor" is
available as a named variable in debian-run-directories and everything
it calls ... does that explain it?
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