Re: Gnus installation

[Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>]

Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org> writes:

>>>>>> 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.

Ok.  You have my vote.

>>> 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.

And further, *.el contain online documentation, so they really should
be installed IMHO.