"sumo" vs. "all-packages"

[Ben Wing]

>     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).

Come on.  You're basically arguing "let's be deliberately obscure because
anyone who cares will figure it out anyway".

>     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 don't understand at all.

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

It's just 4 symlinks.  Takes 5 seconds to get rid of them if we don't want
them.