Re: "sumo" vs. "all-packages"

Ben> Come on. You're basically arguing "let's be deliberately Ben> obscure because anyone who cares will figure it out anyway". I can live with that interpretation. I'm also planning to make it mostly irrelevant, by providing packages-in-source distributions that install the packages in the right place. Ben> I don't understand at all. People already download the sumos and unpack them in a "convenient" place, then post to c.e.x or xemacs-beta wondering why XEmacs doesn't load their packages. If you label them more clearly, this will happen, if anything, more often. Ben> It's just 4 symlinks. Takes 5 seconds to get rid of them if Ben> we don't want them. That's true only if there's 100% consensus that they were a dumb idea in the first place, and if you don't plan to deal with the questions on c.e.x if and when they arise. I do plan to deal with those questions _personally_, so I'd like some input into anything that changes the distribution that ordinary users see. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.