On Thu, Jul 04, 2024 at 06:06:23PM -0400, aisha wrote: > Hi, > > I've attached a patch for editors/emacs, which adds `/etc/emacs` as an > additional directory from which to load the site-start.el. > I think it's more intuitive to have custom configurations in `/etc/` as > opposed to modifying files in `/usr/local/share`, which are generally meant > to be examples or fallback configs. > The patch is small and is backwards compatible, so nothing should break. > > OK? comments?
I'm fine with the general idea. FWIW Debian does something similar. Regarding the diff itself, yours slightly mangles the original load-path: it drops /usr/local/share/emacs/29.4/site-lisp. The diff below addresses that and slightly reorganizes your proposal. Tested with a dummy /etc/emacs/subdirs.el. By the way, note that emacs won't automatically install /etc/emacs/subdirs.el like done for other site-lisp directories. So if users install stuff into /etc/emacs/ subdirectories, emacs won't look them up. I don't think it's a problem. If the diff below works for you, please commit it (ok jca@). Index: Makefile =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/ports/editors/emacs/Makefile,v diff -u -p -r1.119 Makefile --- Makefile 23 Jun 2024 12:55:50 -0000 1.119 +++ Makefile 5 Jul 2024 14:11:15 -0000 @@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ COMMENT= GNU editor: extensible, custom # Zap post-extract when updating VERSION= 29.4 DISTNAME= emacs-${VERSION} +REVISION= 0 CATEGORIES= editors @@ -26,10 +27,12 @@ FLAVORS= athena gtk2 gtk3 no_x11 FLAVOR?= gtk3 GCCARCH= ${MACHINE_ARCH}-unknown-openbsd +LOCAL_LISP_PATH= ${SYSCONFDIR}/emacs:${LOCALBASE}/share/emacs/${VERSION:C/[a-z]+$$//}/site-lisp:${LOCALBASE}/share/emacs/site-lisp CONFIGURE_STYLE= gnu MODGNU_CONFIG_GUESS_DIRS=${WRKSRC}/build-aux CONFIGURE_ARGS= --build="${GCCARCH}" \ + --enable-locallisppath="${LOCAL_LISP_PATH}" \ --without-sound CONFIGURE_ENV= CPPFLAGS="-I${LOCALBASE}/include" \ Index: pkg/PLIST =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/ports/editors/emacs/pkg/PLIST,v diff -u -p -r1.30 PLIST --- pkg/PLIST 2 Aug 2023 11:12:25 -0000 1.30 +++ pkg/PLIST 5 Jul 2024 14:11:15 -0000 @@ -4309,3 +4309,4 @@ share/emacs/site-lisp/ share/emacs/site-lisp/subdirs.el share/metainfo/ share/metainfo/emacs.metainfo.xml +@sample ${SYSCONFDIR}/emacs/ -- jca