Some oddies in the auctex (11.55) installation

Hello 

This is an issue which concerns both the auctex developement team and
the xemacs team, hence my double posting.

The default behaviour for a auctex installation using xemacs 
that is
./configure --with-xemacs=/usr/bin/xemacs

 has the result, that the files, which are generated by the make
 process, will be installed in 


infodir = ${packagedir}/info
lispdir = ${packagedir}/lisp
packagedir = /usr/share/xemacs21/xemacs-packages
auctexdir= ${lispdir}/auctex


I consider such a choice as *bad*.
First it will need root privileges, second it will install in the
directory where the _official_ xemacs pkg sits. 

So I suggest that the default value are: 

either the pkg directory is 
packagedir = /usr/share/xemacs21/site-packages

Which still would need root privileges or the value
is 
packagedir = ~/.xemacs/xemacs-packages.


It is true that the INSTALLATION file says something about how to set
the packagedir, that is to run
./configure --with-xemacs=/usr/bin/xemacs --with-packagedir=/DIR
but in any case, the *default* behaviour should not be the one mention
above. 

I suggest if 
./configure --with-xemacs=/usr/bin/xemacs
is executed, a message pops up saying, 

"you did not specify neither the packagedir nor the lispdir option".


Besides the package generated this way *does not* include a MANIFEST
file, so uninstall could be a little tricky, recall that the xemacs
are installed according to the structure 
/lisp/packagename
/man/packagename

But not

/packename/lisp
/packename/man 

In the letter deleting the packagename directory would delete the
installed files, in the former you have to go directory by
directory. So that is where a MANIFEST file comes in handy (posted a
while ago I simple function to delete the content of a 3rd party
package by reading the MANIFEST file)


I would appreciate any comments of the Xemacs development team on this
issue.

Thanks


Uwe Brauer