Peter S Galbraith <p...@debian.org> writes: > Tommi Vainikainen <thv+deb...@iki.fi> wrote: >> However in addition to that, there is now Piuparts error[1], which I >> understand is related to my earlier mail[2] on debian-emacsen, which did >> not trigger any responses. Can anyone here clarify what is correct >> approach for handling removing of site-start.d init-files for Emacs >> addons, please? >> >> [1] http://piuparts.debian.org/sid/source/g/gnus.html >> [2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-emacsen/2009/07/msg00000.html > > I don't think I do anything special about those files. I let dpkg > handle them, even if that they as cruft because people remove instead of > purge packages. > > I do add code to the file under /etc/emacs to check if the package is > _really_ installed before doing any setup. See for example > emacs-goodies-el.
Thank you for your response, I've looked now how emacs-goodies-el does things. It seems that the big difference is that gnus package wants to install init files only for specific emacs flavors. In detail, I want to avoid installing gnus package init files for GNU Emacs 23, which contains newer bundled version of gnus. (Gnus release policy and versioning is a bit odd, but that shouldn't matter on this issue.) Currently gnus package (based on old maintainer scripts) copies init file to /etc/<flavor>/site-start.d in emacsen-install script instead of simply letting dpkg install those to generic directory /etc/emacs/site-start.d. All this leaves me wondering if the correct solution would be using /etc/emacs/site-start.d/XXgnus.el but inside it have Emacs version check, which would skip load-path additions with non-wanted Emacs versions... -- Tommi Vainikainen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-emacsen-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
