[I'm not sure this should be on -devel] Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The only reason that I chose /etc initially was because I was trying > to follow emacs upstream behaviour as closely as possible, and they > put all the auto-loaded stuff in /etc. However, that doesn't mean > that we couldn't also augment policy to add a > /usr/share/emacs/site-start.d/ where packages could put their > non-configurable code. However, then there would be the question of > ordering -- what happens first -- offhand, I'd say that /usr/share > would run before /etc so that admins could override things. I think the order would have to be by number first, then by directory. e.g. If I have a file 55bar.el numbered so it runs after 50foo.el from another package, I don't want the ordering to change on me because one of the scripts got moved from under /etc to /usr/share. Peter