Karl, please, for everyone's sake -- don't do this. Yes, it's an excellent idea. Nobody's going to argue that! But Debian has absolutely no place changing the behavior of a program so radically like this.
People with NFS-mounted home directories are going to have to start keeping multiple copies of their initialization files around. XEmacs developers are going to get flaming bug reports when Debian users try to edit ~/.emacs like the nice O'Reilly book said to and nothing happens. Rather than doing this, why not work with the XEmacs developers on a solution that will work for everyone? -- Brought to you by the letters A and N and the number 16. "A calpac is a large cap." Debian GNU/Linux maintainer of Gimp and GTK+ -- http://www.debian.org/
