[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) writes: > The menu-methods technique works fine, but I don't think it would > violate my proposed policy addition. Perhaps a better way to say it > is: > > "Packages which install conffiles should be careful that those > conffiles do not continue to affect the behavior of other programs > once the package has been removed. It should not be necessary to > purge a package in order to prevent it from having an affect on other > programs." > > menu-methods installers would meet this by changing the mode. Emacs > scripts could do it by my "callout" suggestion or by having the emacs > load code do something more clever than it does now.
I still like this policy idea. But the octave maintainer has suggested a different solution: change the elisp start file to check for the existence of relevant files, and only do its thing if the package is really installed. (That's basically what /etc/init.d scripts already do.)
