Re: package system: questions, suggestions, alien

Ville> Anyway, what I am looking after is that XEmacs has a nice Ville> package system, why don't the majority of users (just a Ville> guess...) use it but download sumos instead? It would Ville> probably be less work and easier for everyone if we had Ville> (only) One Easy and Working Way to handle packages. A SUMO is basically an installed tree, tarred up. The SUMOs and the individual packages have separate purposes. I would imagine that most Unix users do start by installing a SUMO, but then use the pui to update. Ville> Ah, I wasn't even aware of that (hmm, efs?). Agreed, this Ville> should be fixed somehow. Yes, but it's not as easy as it looks. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN My nostalgia for Icon makes me forget about any of the bad things. I don't have much nostalgia for Perl, so its faults I remember. Scott Gilbert c.l.py