I just managed to start 21.0 without getting any errors from my
.emacs.
I fully appreciate the idea of breaking out the packages from XEmacs,
but there has got to be a better way of figuring out the dependencies
for each package. I spent over an hour trying to get through the
startup, scanning the roadmaps for the file needed and then getting
the package and installing it. And I have every reason to believe that
I have many more to go that won't hit me until I enter some command.
Is there a way of declaring the dependencies required by some package
or must it be trial and error?
Some specifics: ps-print.el seems to be missing. It's not in any
roadmap file. Likewise term.el seems MIA. And Gnus calls sort-subr
which is not found. The jka-compr package also seems to be missing.
I suspect that I'll eventually find all of them, but there needs to be
a better way of helping the user through this!
On the other hand, tpu-edt seems happy in 21.0 once you get all of the
packages it calls. I have only a single bug to track down so far.
Thanks,
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman(a)es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634
