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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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