emacs fan help with packaging .el

[Horst H. von Brand]

Jonathan Underwood <jonathan.underwood at 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? If the *.el files are borken, "rpm -V" won't notice?
Grates me the wrong way.
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