[Fedora-packaging] Packaging guidelines for Emacsen add-on packages

Ville Skyttä ville.skytta at iki.fi
Sun May 27 16:28:15 UTC 2007


On Sunday 27 May 2007, Jonathan Underwood wrote:

> I would propose guidelines such as these:
> 1) Packages which include add on modes for (X)Emacs should package the
> byte compiled lisp files for these modes in a sub-package named
> foo-emacs and/or foo-xemacs.

I don't agree with that naming - it doesn't follow the "if it's bar for foo, 
call it foo-bar" naming strategy applied to just about everything else.  
emacs-foo and xemacs-foo would be better.  Ditto emacs-foo-el, xemacs-foo-el.

Otherwise, looks good to me.




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