Erick Branderhorst writes:
>
> > OK, so we've decided to have packages put their Emacs startup stuff in
> > a directory, with one file per package.
> >
> > The directory obviously ought to go in /etc, and the files made
> > conffiles, so that the sysadmin can reconfigure things.
> >
> > /etc/emacs/site-start.d ?
>
> Please wait a minute.
>
> How will these files be read. In alphabetical or fileposition order?
> Some scripts written in these might work only properly if some other
> script is executed first. I can't come up with some proper example
> but I can imagine that this might be very true. This will force us
> to scan the files several times and execute what is in there only if
> some specific other scripts are executed earlier.
If the files there really depend on each other, then it may be nice
to require that each xxxx.el file contains
(provide 'site-start-xxx)
(as the *last* line so nothing is provided in case of error), and other
files will just use
(require 'site-start-xxx)
as needed.
Or is there a reason not to do that?
Yves.
