Tommi Vainikainen <thv+deb...@iki.fi> wrote: > 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...
It's up to you. I wouldn't object. The thing I dislike about /etc/<flavor>/site-start.d is that it assumes you know about all current and future flavour names that the package will be compatible with. Excluding a specific flavour within /etc/emacs/site-start.d/ means that the package will still be setup when using a flavour you hadn't anticipated (e.g. emacs-snapshot). Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-emacsen-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
