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

APA> Boy your site-lisp packages are eclipsing everything under the APA> sun! Is this the way debian sets things up? Dres> Yes intentionally. The thought is that the versions provided Dres> in debian packages are likely to be newer and more closely Dres> watched by their maintainers than I'm able to do. Dres> In practice there have occasionally been problems, but not many Dres> and nothing major that I remember. Stephen> I'm mildly surprised you haven't run into XEmacs/Emacs Stephen> incompatibility issues, since most of the maintainers seem Stephen> to be more interested in Emacs. It has happened every once in a while, but nothing major that I've noticed so far. Usually a missing variable or a function with one more or less argument. 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