Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 12:52:35 +1030 (CST) From: Kris Kennaway <kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au> To: Satoshi Asami <asami@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: emacs directories in BSD.local.dist Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.05.9902091252100.7684-100000@bragg> In-Reply-To: <199902090201.SAA67542@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>
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On Mon, 8 Feb 1999, Satoshi Asami wrote: > * Just curious as to why share/emacs and share/emacs/site-lisp are created by > * BSD.local.dist instead of by the emacs ports which might want to use them? > * It's not a big deal, but it seems to me that these aren't useful for the > * general case of someone not wanting to install an emacs port (strange as that > * may sound [1]). I suspect it's for historical reasons, but it doesnt mean it > * can't be removed if sufficient time is deemed to have passed. > > Actually it's the other way around. It's created by BSD.local.dist so > that people who don't need emacs don't have to install them. :) > > The problem is that many ports, some of which only install .el files > as a "by the way, you can use this from emacs too", fall over if this > directory is not around. One solution is to add RUN_DEPENDS to emacs, > which causes a whole lot of unhappiness, of course. Ahh, that makes sense. Thanks for the explanation. Kris ----- (ASP) Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) announced today that the release of its productivity suite, Office 2000, will be delayed until the first quarter of 1901. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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