On Mon, 04 Jan 2016 15:35:51 +0100, Jan Synacek wrote: > Hello, > > long time ago, there was a request to create the emacs-filesystem > package [1], so other packages could drop their emacs-specific files > there. I believe it was done the other way around... Those files are > useless without emacs to begin with. I think packages that have emacs > snippets / modes should have a "-emacs" subpackage (or something like > that) that depends on emacs itself.
Two observations: 1) Emacs extensions are to be put into emacs- subpackages, not -emacs. It's in the %parent-%child naming guidelines. Note that sometimes this is implemented as virtual package names, i.e. explicit Provides such as those in desktop-file-utils. 2) A dependency on emacs-filesystem is primarily for packages, which store files in those directories, but which do _not_ need Emacs to be installed. Splitting off emacs- subpackages is not always the most wise/convenient choice. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
