From owner-freebsd-current Sun Feb 7 02:50:04 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA07615 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 7 Feb 1999 02:50:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from adelphi.physics.adelaide.edu.au (adelphi.physics.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.36.247]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA07517 for ; Sun, 7 Feb 1999 02:49:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au) Received: from bragg (bragg [129.127.36.34]) by adelphi.physics.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.8/8.8.8/UofA-1.5) with SMTP id VAA23440 for ; Sun, 7 Feb 1999 21:19:57 +1030 (CST) Received: from localhost by bragg; (5.65/1.1.8.2/05Aug95-0227PM) id AA20109; Sun, 7 Feb 1999 21:19:56 +1030 Date: Sun, 7 Feb 1999 21:19:56 +1030 (CST) From: Kris Kennaway X-Sender: kkennawa@bragg To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: emacs directories in BSD.local.dist Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Just curious as to why share/emacs and share/emacs/site-lisp are created by BSD.local.dist instead of by the emacs ports which might want to use them? It's not a big deal, but it seems to me that these aren't useful for the general case of someone not wanting to install an emacs port (strange as that may sound [1]). I suspect it's for historical reasons, but it doesnt mean it can't be removed if sufficient time is deemed to have passed. Kris [1] Please, no editor wars :-) --- BSD.local.dist Thu Dec 24 01:54:29 1998 +++ BSD.local.dist~ Sun Feb 7 21:18:23 1999 @@ -168,10 +168,6 @@ .. doc .. - emacs - site-lisp - .. - .. examples .. misc ----- (ASP) Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) announced today that the release of its productivity suite, Office 2000, will be delayed until the first quarter of 1901. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message