Re: RFS: gnus -- A versatile news and mail reader for Emacsen
Rogério Brito <rbrito@ime.usp.br> writes:
> On May 11 2009, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> Just to double-check: did you already know the background on this?
>> The gnus Debian package is not really recommended for most users.
>> Most users of Gnus are probably better off not installing the gnus
>> Debian package and instead using the version that comes with Emacs.
>
> Could any of you give a brief comment regarding what is the rationale?
The version that ships with Emacs is more stable (often very stable,
which can be a drawback, but I've rarely had any trouble with it). It
sometimes also has some Emacs-specific fixes that haven't made it into a
separate Gnus release yet, since Gnus releases separate from Emacs are
fairly rare these days.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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