Re: updating packages

Jeff Baird writes: Sure. The flip side is that if the distribution gets to decide where files go, the distribution maintainers are far more likely to be willing to give you help because they don't have to find out as much about what's different about your system to give advice. And if your needs are fairly "standard", packaging systems can be a great convenience. But if you've got special needs, you *should* feel free to make your own decisions. Well, that implication of a terminal case of NIH syndrome is not really fair. XEmacs doesn't depend on RPM or Python for its package system because it can't depend on them being available and properly set up on all systems where XEmacs might be installed. In the common case of not installed but available, you would just have to explain to the user how to set them up, and that setup would likely be an attractive nuisance if they ever tried to install anything but XEmacs via the 3rd-party package system. So developing our own package system was a compromise. The nice thing is that it's an excellent compromise for a lot of people, improving your chances of being a member of that lot. Even nicer, you're not stuck with it if you can do better for yourself. Feel free to ask here. The point is that you're right ... now. You may change your mind in the future, and we're here to help *if* you do. Steve _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://lists.xemacs.org/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta