From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>
To: Achim Gratz <Stromeko@Nexgo.DE>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Location of OpenDocument style files should be configurable
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2011 19:32:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220.45631.780613.706617@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jdi62r$ach$1@dough.gmane.org>
>>>>> On Thu, 29 Dec 2011, Achim Gratz wrote:
> IMHO, an _installed_ org mode should never heuristically search
> any support files -- the location should either be recorded into
> org-install.el as a constant or made configurable as a defcustom,
> whichever is more appropriate.
Such heuristic searches are not uncommon in other elisp packages.
But I agree that it's the wrong approach. If the location is known at
build time, then it should be recorded somewhere in the lisp code.
>> Now my question, could the defconst be changed to a defvar, so that
>> we can specify the location in our site-start file? Or, preferably,
>> could the etcdir specified in "make" command be honoured in the
>> lisp code?
> Jambunathan will have to answer that, but a defvar seems the wrong
> solution to this problem. Also site-start should probably not be
> (mis-)used to configure the behaviour of packages that the user may
> not actually use.
Well, we don't configure the behaviour, but just fix a wrong path.
Also Gentoo's site-start file requires org-install if org-mode is
installed on the user's system. So, for the user there won't be a
visible difference if the path is defined in org-install or in
site-start.
Of course, it is preferred if the upstream package gets things right,
so that we don't have to adjust them on the distro level.
Ulrich
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-29 18:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-29 11:24 Location of OpenDocument style files should be configurable Ulrich Mueller
2011-12-29 16:06 ` Jambunathan K
2011-12-29 16:56 ` Ulrich Mueller
2011-12-30 9:07 ` Achim Gratz
2011-12-29 16:56 ` Achim Gratz
2011-12-29 18:32 ` Ulrich Mueller [this message]
2011-12-30 19:53 ` Jambunathan K
2011-12-31 0:07 ` Ulrich Mueller
2012-01-01 18:35 ` Ulrich Mueller
2012-01-01 20:43 ` Ulrich Mueller
2012-01-02 14:10 ` Jambunathan K
2012-01-03 9:38 ` Ulrich Mueller
2012-01-03 10:20 ` Bastien
2012-01-03 14:59 ` Ulrich Mueller
2012-01-03 10:26 ` Bastien
2012-01-03 13:59 ` Ulrich Mueller
2012-02-24 11:01 ` Jambunathan K
2012-02-24 11:20 ` Jambunathan K
2012-01-02 22:11 ` Achim Gratz
2012-01-03 10:10 ` Ulrich Mueller
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