Greg Troxel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The mechanism I'm proposing is a bit more flexible than that, but the
> basic idea in both cases is that the core distribution (either Emacs
> or Guile) has a view on where it wants add-on packages to be installed
> (and hence which may be different from the add-on package's $prefix).
>
> I think this is the crux of the disagreement.
Yes, I agree (that this is the crux), but it's not in our control to
force package authors to abide by this, even if we agreed to adopt
this as policy.
> So I'd like the core distribution to at least
> be neutral on what the 'right' way is, and explain both
> in-guile's-prefix and in-the-prefix-that-was-given methods.
I'm happy with that.
Neil
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