On Tue, Dec 16, 1997 at 12:01:28PM +0500, Adam P. Harris wrote: > > [You (Sten Anderson)] > > >I am not a developer, but I have a few comments. > > > >When I run dselect, I see some Emacs packages as seperate deb > >packages, e.g. auctex. Now, I prefer XEmacs, which includes auctex, > >but how could I know that? Either make such packages shared between > >GNU and XEmacs, or write in the control file: GNU Emacs only. > > Ick. Well that would break developer policy in the sense that you'd have > to pretty significantly hack on the stock XEmacs distibution (which > bundles all this) if you wanted to cut out these lisp packages. And I > don't think it would be worth it since sometimes they are slightly > different versions. > > Really, the way for a user to know is to either notice that the package > depends on Emacs19 (not XEmacs) and/or if there's a blurb in the > description that says that the package is part of XEmacs. I'm pretty > sure most of the lisp packages already have this blurb; I encourage you > to go thru and check and submit bug report (wishlist items?) if not.
I've had a look at all the current packages, details are below (some programs are probably fine). I think most of these packages should be "fixed" is someway - either: depending on emacs|xemacs description includes "does not work with Xemacs" description includes "already included with Xemacs" As an aside, these packages *shouldn't* have "conflicts Xemacs" as you might want to install emacs and Xemacs at the same time. One of the things about installing xemacs and emacs was sharing files (just the .els?) - if this is done, is there a problem when someone installs auctex for emacs and they have xemacs installed? Cheers - details follow... packages which seem fine ------------------------ vm (depends on emacs, says it is already included in xemacs) cvs-pcl (ditto) tm (depends on xemacs|emacs) packages with bugs? ------------------- suggests emacs, no mention of xemacs: elisp-manual gnats gnats-user depend on emacs, no mention of xemacs: hyperlatex auto-pgp w3-el mailcrypt (emacs >=19.28-1) gnuserv bbdb crypt++ elib calc (emacs >=19.34) auctex emacspeak debview emacs-czech (emacs >=19.30) Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Debian Linux - www.debian.org http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett | Because bloated, unstable PGP key available on public key servers | operating systems are from MS -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .