Re: [issue] XEmacs 21.5 can't find packages
Michael Sperber writes:
> I guess I'm not clear on what is meant by
"relocatable" given that
> "run-in-place" works with --with-prefix=yes.
Run-in-place is not the same "relocatable", and there's very specific
code to deal with this case.
Sure, but what is the difference? If it can't be explained in words
of one syllable, maybe we should put --with-prefix into an "if you
don't know why you need this, you don't need it" section in the docs.
Basically, I believe people should only ever configure
"late", so my
recommendation would be to get rid of the "early" and "last" options
and
lose the "late". Acceptable?
So early is *always* user-init-directory? Do we know what that is
early enough for package initialization?
I guess we can lose the "last" option. In practice the system and
user roots should be enough for anybody. (Or is --with-last-packages
a search path rather than a single directory?) So this seems like a
reasonable simplification to me.
How about EMACSPACKAGEPATH? Same syntax and semantacs as
--with-*-packages? Does it replace or add to the built-in paths (if
any)?
(I know what the semantics are now, but if we do this it's going to be
the last chance to rethink these decisions for a while.)
Steve
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