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From: Matthew Kennedy <mkennedy@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] RFC for Gentoo GNU Emacs users
Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2003 07:07:42
Message-Id: 87ptpk951g.fsf@gentoo.shacknet.nu
1 After reading through
2 http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?EmacsForDebian I will be
3 changing our app-emacs/ category to not touch site-lisp.el. Instead
4 there will be a /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-gentoo.el which will
5 contain the same thing. Gentoo Emacs users will then be able to load
6 site-gentoo.el from their individual ~/.emacs files.
7
8 This has the following implication:
9
10 * on multi-user systems, emerging an app-emacs package because user
11 A wants it will not affect user B if user B's .emacs doesn't load
12 site-gentoo.el.
13
14 Gentoo GNU Emacs users will have a few options available to them after
15 the change:
16
17 * if you want the greatest flexibility in how you customize each GNU
18 Emacs package, you can edit your .emacs and NOT load
19 site-gentoo.el.
20
21 * if you want some level of flexibility, you can load a subset of
22 /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/NNpackagename-gentoo.el and cusomize
23 the rest from your .emacs.
24
25 * if you want very little flexibility and virtually no customization
26 to do, you can simply load site-gentoo.el from your .emacs. (this
27 is the current state of Gentoo GNU Emacs packages).
28
29 Questions, comments, suggestions... all welcome.
30
31 Matt
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34 Matthew Kennedy
35 Gentoo Linux Developer
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[gentoo-dev] Re: RFC for Gentoo GNU Emacs users Ryan Shaw <ryan.shaw@××××××.com>