Re: concensus on removing TeX and Emacs from standard

[Craig Sanders <cas@taz.net.au>]

On Fri, Dec 31, 1999 at 12:03:02AM -0800, Robert Woodcock wrote:
> Hello, I think TeX and Emacs should no longer be standard. The purpose
> of this message is to build a concensus for this so a bug can be filed
> against ftp.debian.org to have it done.
>
> Specifically, these packages should be made optional:
>
> tetex-lib, tetex-base, tetex-bin, emacs20, emacs20-el, emacsen-common
>
> My reasoning is a large number of Debian users have no use for these
> subsystems, therefore they should be add-ons instead of default
> infrastructure.

agreed.

craig

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craig sanders