Re: site-lisp overwritten by installed XEmacs Packages on Debian

Micha> Hello James, Micha> This is not the case if a user uses `pui-list-packages' to Micha> update a XEmacs installation. IMHO this is even more likely to Micha> be newer than any Debian package. Why does one want to use the Micha> Debian package with XEmacs if XEmacs already comes with Gnus? Actually still untrue. The XEmacs packages get updated to a new upstream version (upstream to XEmacs) less frequently than the debian packages do. (And this is not meant as a criticism of anyone it's just the way it is.) Micha> Thank you for your help. I'm sorry to say but I don't know how Micha> to edit `00debian.el'. I can't find the file where Micha> /usr/share/xemacs21/packages/lisp/foo is added to the Micha> load-path. Change: (setq load-path (append (dir-and-all-good-subs (expand-file-name "~/.xemacs/xemacs-packages")) (dir-and-all-good-subs (expand-file-name "~/.xemacs/packages")) (list (concat "/etc/xemacs" debian-xemacs-major-version)) '("/etc/emacs") (list (concat "/usr/local/share/emacs/xemacs-" debian-xemacs-version "/site-lisp")) '("/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp") `(,＠(dir-and-all-good-subs "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/site-lisp") ,＠(dir-and-all-good-subs (concat "/usr/share/xemacs/site-lisp-" debian-xemacs-major-version "/")) ,＠(dir-and-all-good-subs "/usr/share/xemacs/site-lisp/") ,＠(dir-and-all-good-subs (concat "/usr/share/xemacs" debian-xemacs-major-version "/site-lisp/")) ) load-path '("/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp"))) To: (setq load-path (append (dir-and-all-good-subs (expand-file-name "~/.xemacs/xemacs-packages")) (dir-and-all-good-subs (expand-file-name "~/.xemacs/packages")) (list (concat "/etc/xemacs" debian-xemacs-major-version)) '("/etc/emacs") (list (concat "/usr/local/share/emacs/xemacs-" debian-xemacs-version "/site-lisp")) '("/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp") load-path `(,＠(dir-and-all-good-subs "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/site-lisp") ,＠(dir-and-all-good-subs (concat "/usr/share/xemacs/site-lisp-" debian-xemacs-major-version "/")) ,＠(dir-and-all-good-subs "/usr/share/xemacs/site-lisp/") ,＠(dir-and-all-good-subs (concat "/usr/share/xemacs" debian-xemacs-major-version "/site-lisp/")) ) '("/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp"))) and then move /etc/xemacs21/site-start.d/20gnus-init.el to /etc/xemacs21/site-start.d/unused20gnus-init.el (Sorry forgot about the possibility of a gnus start file.) Micha> Is there a way to use XEmacs package system and Debian Micha> packages without conflicts? Not at the moment. It's one of those things I keep planning on doing, starting and then realizing it's a big project and I don't have enough time right now to do. Jim -- ＠James LewisMoss <dres(a)lewismoss.org&gt; | Blessed Be! ＠ http://www.lewismoss.org/~dres | Linux is kewl! ＠"Argue for your limitations and sure enough, they're yours." Bach