Re: [Laurent.Bonnaud@inpg.fr: Bug#192131: ocaml: postinst fails with xemacs]
On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 09:51:12PM +0200, Ralf Treinen wrote:
> On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 09:35:16PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> > On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 09:24:46PM +0200, Ralf Treinen wrote:
> > > On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 09:02:34PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> > > > On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 08:57:05PM +0200, Ralf Treinen wrote:
> > > > > On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 02:26:18PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> > > > > > On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 01:44:42PM +0200, Jérôme Marant wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > > BTW, I'd advice that you provide the emacs mode separately, in
> > > > > > > a package called "ocaml-mode".
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Ok, i can do that, but i don't really like it a lot. It is part of the
> > > > > > ocaml source package, and any trouble i would have with the emacs mode
> > > > > > would mean a new upload to ocaml also.
> > > > >
> > > > > Splitting off a new binary package (with architecture=all) is
> > > > > easy. The emacs files of the ocaml package currently take
> > > > > 164 kB for the el (emacs-lisp sourec) files, plus 100 - 124 kB
> > > > > per flavour. Hence, if you have three flavours of emacs installed
> > > >
> > > > Err, the 100-124 per flavor are the ones that get compiled at install
> > > > time, aren't they.
> > >
> > > That's correct. It doesn't concern package size, but it is still a
> > > waste of space on the users machine if he doesn't want this emacs
> > > mode.
> >
> > He don't need to install emacs in that case, does he ?
>
> Maybe he wants to use emacs for other things besides editing ocaml file
> using the original ocaml emacs mode ?
Sure, sure, but then, he don't really worries about 300Ko or so, not
with the size of the emacs packages already installed.
But sure i agree with you, i will split off the ocaml mode with my next
package upload.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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