Dan Hatton dan.hatton@btinternet.com writes:
Emacs keeps a bunch of scripts to run at startup, in the directory </etc/emacs/site-start.d>.
Specifically, emacs add-on packages put them there.
These scripts were making the startup of my emacs painfully slow, so I moved most of them to a directory </etc/emacs/site-dontstart.d>.
All was well until the other day, when Debian (stable) released a new and more secure xemacs21 package. As part of this package's installation process, a program called emacs-install gets run. After spending (I think correctly) a huge amount of time compiling bits of Lisp, emacs-install died, complaining that it wasn't finding the startup scripts where it expected, leaving me unable to complete the installation. Is there some "official" method of disabling the startup scripts that doesn't cause this problem, please?
Remove the add-on packages that you didn't want?