2009/1/4 Thomas Moschny <thomas.moschny(a)gmail.com>:
2009/1/4 Jonathan Underwood <jonathan.underwood(a)gmail.com>:
> 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.
Couldn't this be a general mechanism to be used also for vim
syntaxfiles, shell completion rules, etc, etc... ?
yup... there's already examples of this. What I'm not too clear on is
whether triggers are really a good idea. I have vague memories that
the use of triggers was discouraged in fedora, but I don't recall why
- perhaps because using triggers makes things a bit less
deterministic. Perhaps I missremember.