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30.1.50; package-quickstart file is not relocatable

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From: Spencer Baugh <sbaugh <at> janestreet.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca, 77468 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#77468: 30.1.50; package-quickstart file is not relocatable
Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2025 09:24:32 -0400

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
>> Cc: 77468 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
>> Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2025 17:22:22 -0400
>> From:  Spencer Baugh via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
>>  the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
>> 
>> Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>> >> Maybe package-quickstart.el could use relative names to packages in
>> >> package-user-dir (since it itself lives in package-user-dir), and
>> >> absolute names to packages outside that?
>> >
>> > Sounds OK.  Tho maybe we should check `file*-in-directory-p` (or the
>> > presence of "../" in the output of `file-relative-name`) rather than
>> > distinguishing based on `package-user-dir` vs `package-directory-list`?
>> >
>> > In any case, it sounds like a good compromise.
>> 
>> Makes sense.  How about this?
>
> Thanks, but please always remember to comment such non-trivial code,
> explaining its purpose and the problems it attempts to solve.
> Otherwise we make Emacs much harder to maintain for those who come
> after us.

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