On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 10:09:35PM +0300, Richard Braakman wrote: > On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 04:30:21PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > > Oh, does Debian have a position on use of Emacs? Sorry, I'm likly > > going to fail adopting that. > > It used to have one. The Debian position was that Emacs (along > with TeX) was a piece of infrastructure of the Debian operating > system. That got edited out of the Policy Manual by nefarious agents. You're being facetious, right? :) > Now the Debian position is that Emacs is not important. IMO it was prudent and just to make the Debian Policy technology-neutral in this respect. You can submit a proposal for reverting the change, if you're serious. But the proper list for discussion of this point is debian-policy. :) -- G. Branden Robinson | It is the responsibility of Debian GNU/Linux | intellectuals to tell the truth and branden@debian.org | expose lies. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Noam Chomsky
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