[gentoo-dev] RFC for Gentoo GNU Emacs users

[gentoo-dev] RFC for Gentoo GNU Emacs users

[Matthew Kennedy]

After reading through
http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?EmacsForDebian I will be
changing our app-emacs/ category to not touch site-lisp.el. Instead
there will be a /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-gentoo.el which will
contain the same thing. Gentoo Emacs users will then be able to load
site-gentoo.el from their individual ~/.emacs files.

This has the following implication:

  * on multi-user systems, emerging an app-emacs package because user
    A wants it will not affect user B if user B's .emacs doesn't load
    site-gentoo.el.

Gentoo GNU Emacs users will have a few options available to them after
the change:

  * if you want the greatest flexibility in how you customize each GNU
    Emacs package, you can edit your .emacs and NOT load
    site-gentoo.el.

  * if you want some level of flexibility, you can load a subset of
    /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/NNpackagename-gentoo.el and cusomize
    the rest from your .emacs.

  * if you want very little flexibility and virtually no customization
    to do, you can simply load site-gentoo.el from your .emacs. (this
    is the current state of Gentoo GNU Emacs packages).

Questions, comments, suggestions... all welcome.

Matt

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Matthew Kennedy
Gentoo Linux Developer


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[gentoo-dev] Re: RFC for Gentoo GNU Emacs users

[Ryan Shaw]

Matthew wrote:

> After reading through
> http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?EmacsForDebian I will be
> changing our app-emacs/ category to not touch site-lisp.el. Instead
> there will be a /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-gentoo.el which will
> contain the same thing. Gentoo Emacs users will then be able to load
> site-gentoo.el from their individual ~/.emacs files.

I think this is an excellent compromise. You might want to consider
putting a message in the emacs eclass to remind users to load 
site-gentoo.el in their ~/.emacs file, otherwise they might not
become aware of this.

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Ryan Shaw <ryan.shaw@vanten.com>

Senior Developer
Vanten K.K.
http://www.vanten.com/

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