Arash Esbati <ar...@gnu.org> writes: >> See (info "(emacs) Package Files"): >> >> In addition to ‘package-user-dir’, Emacs looks for installed >> packages in the directories listed in ‘package-directory-list’. >> These directories are meant for system administrators to make Emacs >> packages available system-wide; Emacs itself never installs packages >> there. The package subdirectories for ‘package-directory-list’ are >> laid out in the same way as in ‘package-user-dir’. > > What does the above mean in practical terms? I don't see how one can > say: Emacs, please install this auctex-from-elpa.tar under > `package-directory-list'. So a downstream distro manager has to > install AUCTeX from ELPA locally, and then repack that installation > and distribute it for pure unpacking in `package-directory-list'?
Yes, that's what I would assume, too. And that's what packagers already do, right? The difference is just that previously the package went into ../site-lisp/auctex/ and the packager had to add code so that the packages below ../site-lisp/ were added to load-path and now into ../site-lisp/elpa/auctex/ and the usual ELPA semantics apply. I would say it's now easier for packagers. Bye, Tassilo
