Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 15:23:18 -0500, Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: > >> Since using e.g. /etc/emacs21/ instead of /etc/emacs/ makes these >> packages incompatible with future versions of Emacs, they should >> really only be used when the setup is very different between Emacs >> flavours. Even then, is there a good reason for using them instead >> of using conditionals under /etc/emacs/ ? > > Umm, why would they be incompatible? When there is an emacs22, > it shall have a flavour of emacs22, and the gnus install shall, if > the compilation succeeded, create an init file in the appropriate > place.
I don't think so unless gnus is emacs22-specific. It works pretty well with other packages, I don't see any reason why it wouldn't work with gnus. >> think it is not the right thing, unlike nxml-mode which is really >> emacs21-specific. > > Well, I beg to differ. This prevents, say, from a package > which only compiles for version 20, for example, from creating a load > time config for emacs21, thoguh the byte compiled package is not > available. Why can't the flavour and its version be detected from the /etc/emacs/site-start.d file, and things loaded (or not) accordingly? -- J閞鬽e Marant http://marant.org
