[Fedora-packaging] proper way to install emacs lisp add-ons?

[Toshio Kuratomi]

On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 16:53 +0100, Jose Pedro Oliveira wrote:
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> Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 01:10 +0100, Jose Pedro Oliveira wrote:
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> >>> So I can (in my personal ascending in preference):
> >>>
> >>> 1. Require: emacs (this doesn't seem reasonable for people who
> >>> don't use emacs since the lisp add-ons are usually optional)
> >>> 2. do something like cscope and use triggers (just say no to triggers).
> >>> 3. create a sub-package just for the emacs lisp add-on. (seems cleanest,
> >>> but is there a naming guideline for this situation? What would the name
> >>> be? Is this worth the effort?)
> >>>
> >>> or... 4. Can I just go ahead with %{_datadir}/emacs/site-lisp/*? :)
> >> Use triggers and ghost the emacs/xemacs directories. For an example see
> >> the fedora-rpmdevtools specfile.
> > 
> > Or:
> > 
> > Create a sub-package for the emacs lisp add-ons. Naming guideline for
> > this situation is here:
> > 
> > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/NamingGuidelines#AddonEmacs
> > 
> > I think I'd prefer that over triggers, but either will probably pass
> > review.
> 
> If you are talking about installing only one file like
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>  * emacs/xemacs mode file
>  * emacs/xemacs init file
>  * vim files (eg: syntax file)

My impression is that vim syntax files really need to be separate
subpackages because the directory hierarchy they land in is versioned.
Did you find a way around that?  (Our discussion on IRC was cut short
b/c of the FESCo meeting so I don't know if there's some neat trick you
have in mind.)

>  * bash-completion file
> 
> it appears to me a little overkill to create a subpackage but I am
> opened to suggestions.
> 
Overkill but arguably the cleanest.

> Right now, almost every package that installs the above files appears
> to do so in different ways.
> 
> Just try to see who owns the directories
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>  * rpm -qf /etc/bash_completion.d/
>    bash-completion-20060301-1.fc5
>    rpmlint-0.76-1.fc5

So this is the third (and deprecated?) method -- multiple owners of the
directories.
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