Re: Emacs meta-packages

[Jérôme Marant <jmarant@free.fr>]

Quoting Romain Francoise <rfrancoise@debian.org>:

> 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?

I didn't know about it, but I recently prepared such a package
called emacs-defaults, providing emacs and emacs-nox. It is just a matter
of uploading it.

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Jérôme Marant