Provides: emacsen ?
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Hi.
Somebody asked me why gettext suggest emacs.
Then I realized that emacs19 and emacs20 do not provide emacs anymore.
Instead they provide "emacsen".
By reading the emacsen policy I found this:
Each emacsen main package will "Provides: emacsen". It would be
nice to use "emacs", but for historical reasons, and given the
nature of the packaging system, we can't.
Question: Which are those historical reasons? Why the nature of the
packaging system prevent "emacs" to be the name of the virtual package?
Yes, I know this is a litle bit late to change, and that I will probably
have to change gettext so that it suggests "emacsen" instead of emacs, but
I still want to know the reason for this (apparently gratuitous) lack of
backwards compatibility.
Thanks.
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