Re: Emacs meta-packages

[Xavier Maillard <zedek@gnu-rox.org>]

   From: Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>
   Cc: debian-emacsen@lists.debian.org

   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?

   That would be a good idea, indeed.  Similar packages already exist in Debian
   for gcc and python, for instance.  And since Emacs major versions have a
   release cycle of 4-5 years, such a metapackage would not need to be updated too
   often... ;-)

:) This is also why Emacs is the One ! Its perfectness has no competitor.

Xavier