Re: Easy configuration of a site-lisp directory

[Philip Kaludercic]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> Philip Kaludercic [2021-08-25 11:13:49] wrote:
>> Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>>> Max Brieiev [2021-08-23 12:14:46] wrote:
>>>> So is there any conclusion in this long thread about preferable setup
>>>> for the case described in the original post?  And making local git
>>>> repositeries be package.el aware.
>>>
>>> From my point of view, the "preferable setup" is for someone to spice up
>>> `elpa-admin.el` to make it more user-friendly for that use-case.
>>
>> I could look into this, because I was intending to work on elpa-admin.el
>> a bit anyway.  But this would mean that it wouldn't work OOTB, right?
>
> Not sure what you mean by that, but I'm pretty sure the answer is no.

My suggestion to add something like site-lisp.el to Emacs itself was to
allow anyone to use unpackaged elisp code on their local system, without
having to manually bother with updating load-path and autoloading.

> My suggestion is quite vague, includes things like extracting the
> *ideas* but rewrite them differently or copying the few relevant parts
> of the code, ...
>
>
>         Stefan
>

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        Philip Kaludercic