+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #661866 +++ I'd like to see a lightweight emacs-filesystem package split out of emacs. The motivation for this is that packages could at least drop in various init or site-start files without a) requiring any emacs (or -common which isn't lightweight) to be installed, b) owning various emacs dirs, c) using triggers to install the files, or d) splitting annoyingly small *-*emacs subpackages from them. For this purpose, the package should own/include at least these (empty) dirs: %{_datadir}/emacs %{_datadir}/emacs/site-lisp %{_datadir}/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.d Ccing xemacs maintainer, same RFE applies to it. --- Additional comment from kklic on 2011-01-11 04:27:03 EST --- Done in Rawhide: emacs-23.2-17.fc15 Emacs Packaging Guidelines should be modified to mention the possibility of using the -filesystem package. Nevertheless, it should be noted that it's only for small add-ons which do not slow down Emacs startup and do not modify default Emacs behaviour, because users cannot uninstall the Emacs-related part of the package without removing the package core. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Emacs
Package xemacs-21.5.29-17.fc15: * should fix your issue, * was pushed to the Fedora 15 updates-testing repository, * should be available at your local mirror within two days. Update it with: # su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing xemacs-21.5.29-17.fc15' as soon as you are able to, then reboot. Please go to the following url: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/xemacs-21.5.29-17.fc15 then log in and leave karma (feedback).
Thanks. One minor issue though - the -filesystem package should be noarch as far as I can tell.
Oops. I'll fix that in a jiffy....
xemacs-21.5.29-17.fc15 has been pushed to the Fedora 15 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update xemacs'. You can provide feedback for this update here: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/xemacs-21.5.29-17.fc15
Ville - do you plan to propose a change to the Emacs packaging guidelines to reflect this? If not, I can have a look at it, but not until the weekend.
I will probably get to it sometime but it'll take quite a bit longer than the next weekend, so it'd be great if you or someone else would beat me to it.
xemacs-21.5.29-18.fc15 has been pushed to the Fedora 15 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update xemacs'. You can provide feedback for this update here: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/xemacs-21.5.29-18.fc15
xemacs-21.5.29-18.fc15 has been pushed to the Fedora 15 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.