Re: package system: questions, suggestions, alien
On Thu, 2002-05-23 at 00:24, Nix wrote:
> I agree. And for what it's worth, there are not many users
> complaining in g.e.help about a missing package system...
If GNU Emacs had as many packages as XEmacs, that might change.
(How many people download the sumos rather than the individual
packages? Anyone know?)
...and if I've understood correctly, the Sumos shouldn't really exist
(no references available as of now, but I know I've seen some comments
against them somewhere).
I think that a big Sumo tarball gives
users/admins/distro-makers/those-who-don't-use-pui a strong hint like
"These packages have been tested to interoperate well, install this and
don't worry about the dependencies." Well, at least stronger than N
different packages in the same dir, even though the dir is for stable
packages. IMHO, this kind of limits the power of the package system.
I also think that a more comprehensive and more enforced dependency
system could have a positive effect on this; still assuming that Sumos
are not considered a good thing. Versioned dependencies wouldn't hurt
here, I guess...
Cheers,
--
Ville Skyttä
ville.skytta(a)xemacs.org