Re: Oddity with package directories
Robert Pluim writes:
The thing is, my packages are in .xemacs not because they're
local
site-specific things, but because I didn't want to put them in
/usr/local, so they're not really 'early-packages' in that sense.
EMACSEARLYPACKAGES=
EMACSLATEPACKAGES=~/.xemacs:/usr/local/share/xemacs
or something like that, or you can build XEmacs with the appropriate
paths using --with-{early,late}-packages.
I can understand why it happens, but it does screw people who have
no access to /usr/local unless they build their own XEmacs or
figure out how to point an existing one at a different package
hierarchy
Well, people do occasionally wish for different ways of doing this
stuff, but this is the first time I've seen -no-autoloads as the
trigger.
If you think you have a better way, you can lobby Mike Sperber. I've
thought about it a bit, but everything I've thought of has been at
best a marginal improvement, and nothing that would beat the argument
for backward compatibility. :-(
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