Re: The etc directory

[Didier Verna <didier@lrde.epita.fr>]

Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> wrote:

> Didier Verna <didier@lrde.epita.fr> writes:
>> I'm afraid of fixing this without knowing if it also affects GNU Emacs (I
>> don't know if GNU Emacs uses the stuff in etc/).
>
> What exactly is your proposed "fix"?

        Don't know yet. The quick'n dirty fix I used was to create etc/gnus as
a symlink to /etc/images/gnus, but I should investigate the code and see where
the etc directory is used and how it is computed.


>> Besides, this raises an aside question: gnus seems to only use etc/
>> for images, in which case having etc/images/gnus is logical. However,
>> maybe having etc/gnus directly would also make sense (or perhaps only
>> in the future when something else than glyphs would be added).
>
> Gnus is also distributed as part of Emacs, in which case there's much
> more in etc, and many other images (in etc/images) besides Gnus images.
> The gnus directories are designed to fit into this scheme.

        That's all very nice, but I still don't know if there's and etc/gnus
directory in the Emacs distribution, or if gnus only uses etc/images/gnus. But
anyway. There's a very good chance that I"ll find the origin of the problem in
a *-xmacs-*.el of some kind, so this won't affect GNU Emacs users.


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