"sumo" vs. "all-packages"

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

>>>>> "Ben" == Ben Wing <ben at 666.com> writes:

    Ben> "sumo" is a cute name for the collection of all packages, but
    Ben> I'm afraid it will be overly confusing for people not
    Ben> familiar with it.

So are VTR remote controls.  People need to read the docs anyway, I
don't see the name confusing anybody who isn't an accident waiting to
happen (through no fault of their own, admittedly).

    Ben> I've created symlinks in FTP/packages with names
    Ben> `xemacs-all-packages.gz/bz2' and
    Ben> `xemacs-mule-all-packages.gz/bz2' and I wonder whether we
    Ben> shouldn't change the docs to refer to them.

You're aware that Michael removed the code that looks for
"xemacs-packages as a sibling of the source root while you were away?
This is going to be an attractive nuisance, as people grab the
packages, unpack them in a random place (eg, next to the source they
just unpacked) and wonder why XEmacs doesn't find them.

I really wish you'd bring these things up for discussion before doing
them.


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