sperber(a)informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor]) writes: I thought: - Can't it reduce the cost for installation for system admin? - Can't it reduce the cost for building binary kits because major operating systems often provides XEmacs in their distributions. For me, I made FreeBSD version of binary kit in previous two releases. But I think most of FreeBSD users installed XEmacs from its package distributed, not binary kit. OTOH, - It probably increases disk usage on our ftp server because of having each xemacs-21.x-common.{noarch.rpm,tgz,deb}. - The directory layout can't be freely specified with some package system? (I just know FreeBSD's package and RPM can specify it) -- kazz