Re: hexl-find-file => void get-coding-system

nix> `A MULE without the 20Mb of MULE-related packages that I'll nix> never use' is more my concern. *shrug* Packages are still packages. Don't install them, you'll get errors when you try to use uninstalled facilities. Just like the error that started this thread, except that it will depend on much more specialized facilities that really are optional in Mule (unlike coding systems, which have to be supported for Mule where relevant). Hmm, but ... of course the kind of thing that happened with hexl-mode will become more common as people start to think of Mule as the LCD of Emacsen, and start to assume that "basic" mule facilities are available. Lessee: bash$ du --max-depth /coda/Software/XEmacs/Packages/mule-packages 986 /coda/Software/XEmacs/Packages/mule-packages/egg-its 6015 /coda/Software/XEmacs/Packages/mule-packages/leim 1448 /coda/Software/XEmacs/Packages/mule-packages/lookup 513 /coda/Software/XEmacs/Packages/mule-packages/edict 376 /coda/Software/XEmacs/Packages/mule-packages/latin-unity 2165 /coda/Software/XEmacs/Packages/mule-packages/mule-base 4500 /coda/Software/XEmacs/Packages/mule-packages/skk 4 /coda/Software/XEmacs/Packages/mule-packages/CVS 8714 /coda/Software/XEmacs/Packages/mule-packages/mule-ucs 236 /coda/Software/XEmacs/Packages/mule-packages/locale 24957 /coda/Software/XEmacs/Packages/mule-packages Nope, nothing there that anything else might depend on (except locale, take two, they're small ;-). Maybe mule-base, but I think most of that really could be split out into other packages, it's full of Asian-language-only utilities. Or what's really necessary could go back into core. Bottom line: AFAICT for the foreseeable future, mule as default will add a few hundred grams of beef to the binary, a bit of extra Lisp in the installed tree. Nothing like 25MB, unless you want it. (I can't speak for the default installers, but I'm sure you'll scream loudly if we go to SUMO-in-source and that includes Mule. ;-) -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Don't ask how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.