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Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.ping.de> writes: > I think that when Guile is part of a OS distribution (for example as a > Debian or RPM package) and is thus installed in /usr, then it should > add /usr/local/share/guile (and /usr/local/share/guile/site?) to its > default load path. This is actually something I am going to be trying to deal with over the next few days, as the Debian maintainer for guile. > Is that reasonable? Where should this be done? I think it is > basically a packaging problem so that the Debian or RPM maintainer > should take care to get the default load path right, but the base > Guile package should of course provide enough support for doing this > cleanly. Do we have enough support? I think the GUILE_LOAD_PATH > variable should be reserved for the user. Well, in a round about way we do, which is that they can just modify it themselves in the source code. I do not know of an easy way to add to %load-path at compile time, perhaps we should make a ./configure argument for this?