On Sun, Jun 21, 2015 at 11:12 PM, Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> wrote: > Federico Beffa <be...@ieee.org> skribis: > >> On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 2:13 PM, Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> wrote: >>>>> guix.el already takes care of that (info "(guix) Emacs Initial Setup"), >>>>> so that should be enough. >>>> >>>> Unfortunately this doesn't work without modification. The reason is >>>> that I follow the emacs package.el strategy to install each ELPA >>>> package in it's own sub-directory. Specifically, I'm installing each >>>> package into ".../site-lisp/guix.d/PACKAGE-NAME-VERSION/". The code >>>> in 'guix.el', however, doesn't look in sub-directories below the >>>> profile's '.../site-lisp'. >>> >>> What does it bring us to follow package.el’s strategy? >>> >>> My impression is that we could simply follow what guix.el already does, >>> and thus avoid that guix.d/PACKAGE-VERSION sub-directory. Of course we >>> can adjust guix.el as we see fit, but package.el is a completely >>> separate beast anyway. Am I missing something? >> >> Hi Ludo, >> >> the reason for using separate sub-directories is that many packages >> include files, such as README, ChangeLog, ..., that are likely to >> clash. Even if we would delete all non ".el" files (which probably is >> not safe), with more than 2500 packages on MELPA, it is possible that >> we would still experience some name clashes. I can imagine that >> someone preparing a package may be unaware of the existence of some >> other package, possibly not very popular in his circle. > > What about copying all the .el files to .../site-lisp, and copy the > other files elsewhere (for instance, ‘README’ and ‘ChangeLog’ to > share/doc/$PACKAGE, and .info files to share/info)?
I am copying .info files to share/info. I'm not copying README files to share/doc because these usually do not provide useful documentation for the user and ChangeLog are usually not up-to-date relict. But if somebody feels strongly about it, I can change that. > > Note that name clashes in profiles are annoying, but not fatal. For .el files they are. I also do not think that it is very sane ending up with a flat directory including hundreds of files. Some hierarchy makes the organization much more apparent and clean. Regards, Fede
