On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 11:18:35PM -0500, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > Emacs policy dictates that elisp files that are eval'ed at Emacs startup > go under /etc/emacs. However, these aren't necessarily configuration > files (even if policy dictates that they be conffiles). So that's a > problem with Emacs policy. (e.g. lots of other programs load some init > code at startup that isn't stored under /etc nor tagged as conffiles.)
IMO, that should be /usr/share/emacs somewhere. (It is perfectly acceptable to symlink it to /etc if that seems appropriate). > > It doesn't usually hurt much of anything by tagging them as such except > that half (or so) of us hadn't done so. Also, Tagging them as conffiles > has the drawback that it leaves crud on the system when you remove > instead of purge the package. If that is considered a drawback, then they definitely shouldn't be in /etc. /etc is for configuration which the user would want preserved after remove, by (Debian-Policy) definition. Jules
