Comment 2 for bug 612222

Tim Cross writes:

> However, not sure if <prefix>/share/emacs/etc is the correct location.
> Not all distros have a <prefix>/share/emacs/etc directory. Ubuntu and
> Debian certainly don't.

The distros decide their own directory structure. What we put in our
build is only indicative.

The problem we face is that Gnu Emacs sets up a site-lisp directory
for elisp files, but it doesn't set up site-bin, site-info and
site-etc directories for the other kinds of files. The rationale for
site-xxx naming is so that they can be preserved when you upgrade
Emacs.

> Another problem with using <prefix>/share/emacs/etc is that I don't
> think many users would actually look there for documentation. Much more
> likely to look in /usr/share/doc/vm.

But they go to emacs/etc to find the GNUS-NEWS?

Cheers,
Uday