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From: Frank Terbeck <ft@bewatermyfriend.org>
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Subject: Re: The default $fpath
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Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2014 21:10:14 +0200
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Hello Peter,

Peter Stephenson wrote:
[...]
> It is a bit frustrating that there's nowhere you can put a function and
> guarantee that a user will find it without altering the path.  Granted
> you *can* put it somewhere else where it'll be found, that doesn't mean
> you should be forced to, if there are no gotchas to do with having a
> standard location.

Do you mean making the default =E2=80=98--enable-site-fndir=E2=80=99 indepe=
ndent of
installation prefix to =E2=80=9C/usr/local/share/zsh/site-functions=E2=80=
=9D?

I think that would make sense. Thinking about it a little more, I find
it a bit out of the ordinary that =E2=80=98site-functions=E2=80=99 would *n=
ot* be within
=E2=80=9C/usr/local=E2=80=9D. (Personally, I rarely see that situation myse=
lf, because I
either use debian's zsh package or build from source with installation
prefix set to the default, which is =E2=80=9C/usr/local=E2=80=9D.


Regards, Frank