Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
It seems a little silly to have the extra layer of subdirectories
under ~/.xemacs since most users will not have personal packages
containing non-ASCII characters while using a no-Mule XEmacs. I guess
Ben decided to code --with-package-prefix that way. I personally
do use the extra layer of subdirectories, and it simplifies the
load-path-generating code slightly, but I can't really say Ben's way
is *wrong*. (That's why I say there's no point in arguing the
defaults, in the absence of other improvements.)
defaults are extremely important. they should work the way most users
expect them to.