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Re: Bug#322210: [m68k] ocaml-nox: can not be removed



On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 12:17:45PM +0200, Ralf Treinen wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 12:00:43PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 11:14:56AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> > > On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 11:11:45AM +0200, Ralf Treinen wrote:
> > > > I wonder if anyone is using the original emacs caml mode. Everyone I
> > > > know uses tuareg mode. Why not just drop the emacs mode from the
> > > > ocaml-* packages?
> > > 
> > > I think it's too much a drastic choice to be made by we debian packages.
> > > After all the original emacs mode is shipped by upstream and users may
> > > expect it to be available in the debian package.
> > > 
> > > A separate package, which is not installed per default when you install
> > > ocaml (that mean to me no Recommends on it) is a better choice IMO.
> > 
> > Agreed.
> > 
> > I also feel that upstream may be using it :)
> 
> I don't think that the upstream developers run ocaml from the debian

No, but they may like to have it in case they come accross a default debian
install.

> packages. Anyway, if someone wants to take care of an ocaml-emacsmode
> package I won't object.

not a separate package, just a separate binary packages. I would prefer some
emacs user to do the splitting though.

Friendly,

Sven Luther



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