/etc/mailname
A few days ago I installed a Debian system (V3.0r1).
When emacs is invoked it says "No /etc/mailname. Reverting to default..."
and waits for 3 seconds. Of course this is very undesirable.
It is easy to solve this.
Solution 1:
# echo "Debian is broken" > /etc/mailname
#
Solution 2:
# ed /etc/emacs/site-start.d/00debian-vars.el
1849
/(sit-for 3)/s///
w
1838
q
#
Something is broken. Probably this must be regarded as a
bug in the Debian installation process.
At first sight the problem seems to be that /etc/mailname
does not belong to any package, so that there are no dependencies.
The fact that it does not belong to a package also makes it
more difficult to use http://www.debian.org/Bugs/ that wants a
package name.
Andries
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