Re: emacs directories in BSD.local.dist
On Mon, 8 Feb 1999, Satoshi Asami wrote: > * Just curious as to why share/emacs and share/emacs/site-lisp are created by > * BSD.local.dist instead of by the emacs ports which might want to use them? > * It's not a big deal, but it seems to me that these aren't useful for the > * general case of someone not wanting to install an emacs port (strange as > that > * may sound [1]). I suspect it's for historical reasons, but it doesnt mean > it > * can't be removed if sufficient time is deemed to have passed. > > Actually it's the other way around. It's created by BSD.local.dist so > that people who don't need emacs don't have to install them. :) > > The problem is that many ports, some of which only install .el files > as a "by the way, you can use this from emacs too", fall over if this > directory is not around. One solution is to add RUN_DEPENDS to emacs, > which causes a whole lot of unhappiness, of course. Ahh, that makes sense. Thanks for the explanation. Kris - (ASP) Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) announced today that the release of its productivity suite, Office 2000, will be delayed until the first quarter of 1901. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: emacs directories in BSD.local.dist
* Just curious as to why share/emacs and share/emacs/site-lisp are created by * BSD.local.dist instead of by the emacs ports which might want to use them? * It's not a big deal, but it seems to me that these aren't useful for the * general case of someone not wanting to install an emacs port (strange as that * may sound [1]). I suspect it's for historical reasons, but it doesnt mean it * can't be removed if sufficient time is deemed to have passed. Actually it's the other way around. It's created by BSD.local.dist so that people who don't need emacs don't have to install them. :) The problem is that many ports, some of which only install .el files as a "by the way, you can use this from emacs too", fall over if this directory is not around. One solution is to add RUN_DEPENDS to emacs, which causes a whole lot of unhappiness, of course. So it's either those ports create the directory themselves or let BSD.local.dist do it. The latter was infinitely easier. :) Satoshi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
emacs directories in BSD.local.dist
Just curious as to why share/emacs and share/emacs/site-lisp are created by BSD.local.dist instead of by the emacs ports which might want to use them? It's not a big deal, but it seems to me that these aren't useful for the general case of someone not wanting to install an emacs port (strange as that may sound [1]). I suspect it's for historical reasons, but it doesnt mean it can't be removed if sufficient time is deemed to have passed. Kris [1] Please, no editor wars :-) --- BSD.local.dist Thu Dec 24 01:54:29 1998 +++ BSD.local.dist~ Sun Feb 7 21:18:23 1999 @@ -168,10 +168,6 @@ .. doc .. -emacs -site-lisp -.. -.. examples .. misc - (ASP) Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) announced today that the release of its productivity suite, Office 2000, will be delayed until the first quarter of 1901. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
