Re: Taking over production of emacs20 package.
Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu> writes:
> It should just be handled the same way as the menu package.
You are right, it might be possible. You would know that better than
me anyway. But I don't like the idea because it is unnecessary. Why
should a resource-hungry emacs compilation be executed just to
install dpkg-dev? Is it really that important that
debian-changelog-mode.el is byte-compiled during installation?
<extreme_argument>
Why not include gcc in base, let all deb's contains sources, and
compile everything on installation?
</extreme_argument>
Debian packages contain precompiled files. Post-inst scripts are
usefull for many purposes, but using them to execute a GNU emacs
and/or an XEmacs compilation on every package containing a single
elisp file is overkill.
- Sten Anderson
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