Re: emacs fan help with packaging .el

[Rex Dieter <rdieter math unl edu>]

Horst H. von Brand wrote:

> Jonathan Underwood <jonathan underwood gmail com> wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
>> Another aside: Other the past few months I've noticed that many
>> packages don't create a separate emacs-foo subpackage but rather use a
>> trick with %triggerin to drop elisp files into place when emacs is
>> installed. I also think this should be discussed and documented in the
>> packaging guidelines as an alternative when a package only has 1 or 2
>> elisp files.
> 
> So the behaviour depends on whether {,x}emacs was installed before the
> package or not? 

%triggers fire on when (x)emacs is installed/removed/upgraded, ie, order doesn't matter.

-- Rex