> Mark, > This doesn't answer the overall question...why is it there?
> > --Glenn > >> > On a debian system I am looking at has a >/usr/local/lib/emacs which I > >> > consider to be stranded. > >> Please check that the _current_ Emacs package still does >this. > > > >Current emacs does *create* the directory (ie. it is in the >package > >contents), as recommended by the debian packaging >guidelines, as a > >hint to the user that emacs will *look* there if there's >anything in > >it. It does not put any files there, of course.