Re: package system: questions, suggestions, alien
On Sun, 2002-05-26 at 02:15, Steve Youngs wrote:
VS> I think that a big Sumo tarball gives
VS> users/admins/distro-makers/those-who-don't-use-pui a strong hint like
VS> "These packages have been tested to interoperate well, install this and
VS> don't worry about the dependencies."
It is supposed to convey: "...so you want to get a complete set of
packages? Download this monster Sumo tarball..."
VS> IMHO, this kind of limits the power of the package system.
I don't see how. Can you elaborate?
The "power" was a bad word choice, maybe "usefulness" would have been
better. Anyway, what I am looking after is that XEmacs has a nice
package system, why don't the majority of users (just a guess...) use it
but download sumos instead? It would probably be less work and easier
for everyone if we had (only) One Easy and Working Way to handle
packages.
But they (Sumos) are a good thing. And besides, dependency related
problems reported to xemacs-beta or c.e.x are *VERY* rare [2]. I
think we would be better off fixing the package bootstrap problem.
What I'm talking about here is the problem of having to install some
packages manually before you can use the package system.
Ah, I wasn't even aware of that (hmm, efs?). Agreed, this should be
fixed somehow.
Cheers,
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Ville Skyttä
ville.skytta(a)xemacs.org