Re: Bug#193439: emacsen-common: debian-emacs-policy and package setup in conffile
On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 15:36:22 +0200, Kai Großjohann <kai.grossjohann@gmx.net> said:
> Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> writes:
>> I really have not seen the benefit of this split. If I have stuff
>> under /etc I am takling care of anyway, I would rather not spend
>> effort and code adding yet another directory and files to load up.
> The benefit of the split is that Emacs sill works after the user has
> done "dpkg --purge some_emacs_addon_pkg".
This statement is not convincing either, since it is
incorrect, in two ways: Firstly, If you purge a package, the
conffiles are also removed, so emacs continues to work. Secondly, you
do not need the overhead of two directories to achieve this; you can
either remove, or purge, vm or Gnus, and 4emacs shall continue to
work.
Creating policy and mechanisms rather than getting packages
to fix bugs is the wrong approach.
Anything else?
manoj
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