Re: Yeah! Using instructions missing from the README, xemacs installed! (was Re: How can xemacs have been made so hard to install? Do the developers have any clue it is needlessly hard/undocumented?)
On Thu, Aug 19, 1999 at 08:37:07PM -0700, Ben Wing wrote:
Unfortunately, you are very right about the current situation of
things. In my opinion, the creation of the package system has really
been a big disaster. The only things that packages seem to gain are a
certain amount of disk space (which is essentially free nowadays and
not worth saving), and some possible savings in download time (which
is completely outweighed by the incredible headache that you have to
go through in order to get things working).
You're forgetting about the fact that now packages are updated
independently of the core. This is important.
[...] fix some of the basic problems with documentation
Details, please. I don't need verbosity, I know how hard it is for
you to type, just directions.
OG.