Re: Snapshot packages of XEmacs for Debian?

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; writes: The Debian package system for Emacs/XEmacs is an overengineered mess (the idea is that .el files for all Emacs versions as well as XEmacs are just present once in the file system, and the .elc files are elsewhere). The situation is quite bad enough for Emacs, but in connection with the XEmacs package system and Sumo and other possibly conflicting stuff, things are even worse. Nowadays XEmacs users tend not to fall under the "I installed it because it comes with the system and works" brand but be a bit more dedicated. And the more dedicated users of Emacs, and of XEmacs in particular, will just chuck the Debian packaging and compile their own binaries, because there is no way you are going to find out how to get things to work the way you intended and the upstream documentation describes. IIRC, /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp is early in the load-path for XEmacs. You don't want to think too hard about that. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta