Re: Gnus installation

[Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org>]

>>>>> In <ilu4q82iy2o.fsf@latte.josefsson.org> Simon Josefsson wrote:

> Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org> writes:

>> When installing Gnus, specifying no options, a lot of Lisp files
>> will be scattered underneath the site-lisp directory.  I considered
>> over ten years that it's not a good idea.

> FWIW, I like this.  Emacs do search for files beneath site-lisp by
> default, right?

Yes, indeed.  Especially in the Emacs 18 era, people might not
have preferred to use subdirectories since they had to be added
to load-path manually, though we have now subdirs.el which adds
subdirectories to load-path automatically.  The reason I don't
like it is because I have many files underneath the site-lisp
directory.  So, I always use `--with-lispdir=site-lisp/gnus'.
There's also another usefulness in this; I only do `rm -fr gnus'
when I need to remove old Gnus files, for example.  Furthermore,
the Emacs version of Gnus is installed in the gnus subdirectory.

>> In addition to this,
>> there's another problem that ``./configure; make install'' will
>> never install .el files.  WDYT?

It won't be a matter, if people always use ``make; make install''.
However, those who fully trust Gnus might do that, and they will
not be able to get meaningful backtrace when they are betrayed.

Anyway, I'm not troubled with them at all, though.