Re: emacs split up

[David Schmitt <david@schmitt.edv-bus.at>]

On Thursday 28 April 2005 10:58, josh wrote:
> Thiemo Seufer wrote:
> > emacsen-common is needed for some non-emacs packages like a2ps and
> > dictionaries-common. See apt-cache rdepends emacsen-common.
>
> well, a2ps is farther down the list (#795) than emacs21 (#704).
> dictionaries-common is much higher up (#226), but it only suggests
> emacsen-common, it doesn't depend on it. After looking at the contents
> of emacsen-common, I'm not really sure why dictionaries-common suggests
> it at all, but since suggested pkgs get marked for installation
> (right?), I guess this would explain why emacsen-common is so high on
> the list.

Let's take a look at the numbers:

333   emacsen-common                  3791
738   emacs21-common                  2171
803   a2ps                            2009 
1741  xemacs21-support                 879

Assuming that half of all users use emacs, emacs users use only one version 
and emacs and a2ps installations are not correlated, we have 2171 (emacs21) + 
1004 (a2ps users not using emacs) + 879 (xemacs21) = 4045 installations, 
quite a margin above the seen 3791.


Regards, David

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