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I've been running gentoo-managed emacs-daemon because I trust Gentoo to
do the right thing but I never figured out why the procedure is the way
it is. Now I'm trying to package a “standalone” Emacs application and
the best way to do provide a mainstream entry point to it, is something
along the lines of

cat /usr/bin/my-application.sh

if [ emacs-my-application-running() ] ; then
emacsclient -s emacs-${USER}-my-application
else
emacs -Q --daemon=emacs-${USER}-my-application \
-L necessary-dirs --eval "(run-my-application)"
fi

but I wonder if I should run a daemon this way in Gentoo, or is there a
more preferrable way?

I don't want to use default daemon setup though because I want to run a
specific instance with named socket, to isolate the application.