Re: XEmacs, TeX, and Re: Lengthy Debian install procedures
Branden Robinson <branden@purdue.edu> writes:
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> On Wed, Sep 30, 1998 at 02:53:26PM -0500, john@dhh.gt.org wrote:
> > Rob Browning writes:
> > > If you have a better solution that still keeps all the advantages we have
> > > now, I'm all ears...
> > The problem would be at least partially solved by making emacs optional.
> > Same goes for tex. Why are they standard?
> If we downgraded emacs's priority, a powerful ZOT would issue forth from
> rms's fingers and utterly destroy all Debian systems in the world. It's
> thanks to rms that Debian got off the ground in the first place and to
> relegate the GNU flagship program to "optional" status would curse us with
> loads of bad karma.
Emacs is standard, _but_ if dselect/apt installs "standard" packages
by default, then we really should make only one version of emacs
standard (either emacs19 or emacs20-nomule).
> Mind you, I'm *not* an emacs user myself.
Heathen! :)
Steve
dunham@cse.msu.edu
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