Re: Bug#193439: emacsen-common: debian-emacs-policy and package setup in conffile

2003-05-19 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Then you better start getting policy changed. > > > You mean emacs-policy? That's not such a big thing, is it? > > If files in /usr/share/emacs/debian-lisp.rc/ directory contain > configuration information, then that violates general debia

Re: Bug#193439: emacsen-common: debian-emacs-policy and package setup in conffile

2003-05-19 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Dave Love <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > What we need is an alternate directory that is _not_ under /etc > > where we could also put Emacs startup files. > > This already exists. What we need is _not_ to mess with what Emacs > does by default, a

Re: Bug#193439: emacsen-common: debian-emacs-policy and package setup in conffile

2003-05-19 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Mon, 19 May 2003 20:04:14 -0400, Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Fri, 16 May 2003 11:54:52 -0400, Peter S Galbraith >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> > Simon Josefsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> One solution would be to modif

Re: Bug#193439: emacsen-common: debian-emacs-policy and package setup in conffile

2003-05-19 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 16 May 2003 11:54:52 -0400, Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: > > > Simon Josefsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> One solution would be to modify emacs to look for, before > >> default.el and site-start.el, a /usr/share/emacs/d

Re: Bug#193439: emacsen-common: debian-emacs-policy and package setup in conffile

2003-05-19 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 16 May 2003 08:17:51 -0400, Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: > > > Unfortunately, that's against Debian policy. > > And rightly so, I think. Sure. > > What we need is an alternate directory that is _not_ under /etc > >