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Re: Emacs meta-packages



On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 10:44:10AM +0100, Romain Francoise wrote:
> The fine folks at Ubuntu have added a new `emacs-meta' source package to
> their distribution which provides empty binary packages `emacs' and
> `emacs-nox' that just depend on emacs21 and emacs21-nox:
> 
>     <URL: ftp://ftp.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/e/emacs-meta/>
> 
> It allows newbies to just `apt-get install emacs', sparing them the need
> to search for a specific flavor.
> 
> I think Debian should have something similar, perhaps in emacsen-common.
> 
> Opinions?

agreed. I'm long time debian and emacs user and I still find it confusing
that I can't just log in to fresh debian install and do apt-get install emacs

alex
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