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Re: sml-mode



Rafael Laboissiere wrote:

> * Colin Walters <walters@debian.org> [2001-10-26 05:11]:
> 
> > Jens Peter Secher <jpsecher@diku.dk> writes:
> > 
> > > OK. [This "general rule" should be added to the Emacs Policy, then.]
> > 
> > Agreed.
> 
> What about the patch below?  (I just did some cut & paste from the present
> thread.  Colin and Peter will recognize their words.)
> 
> --- debian-emacs-policy	Fri Oct 26 12:55:09 2001
> +++ debian-emacs-policy-new	Fri Oct 26 13:11:48 2001
> @@ -219,6 +219,16 @@
>       file.  emacsen-common will make sure that the install/remove
>       scripts are ordered to respect inter-add-on package dependencies.
>  
> +  E) Each add-on package may use debconf to ask site-specific 
> +     configuration questions.  As a general rule, packages should
> +     prompt if their general setup overrides the usual emacsen
> +     behaviour.  Just setting up a few autoloads and adding items to
> +     auto-mode-alist are no strong reasons for prompting, especially
> +     if there is no other entry in auto-mode-alist for the filetypes
> +     added.  Keep in mind that users can always override things, since
> +     their ~/.emacs (or ~/.xemacs/init.el) is evaluated after the
> +     Debian site packages. 
> +
>  7) Mandatory binary symlink
>  
>     Each emacsen main package must have a symlink

:-)

I like it!

Peter



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