"sumo" vs. "all-packages"

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

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

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

I can live with that interpretation.  I'm also planning to make it
mostly irrelevant, by providing packages-in-source distributions that
install the packages in the right place.

    Ben> I don't understand at all.

People already download the sumos and unpack them in a "convenient"
place, then post to c.e.x or xemacs-beta wondering why XEmacs doesn't
load their packages.  If you label them more clearly, this will
happen, if anything, more often.

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

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

That's true only if there's 100% consensus that they were a dumb idea
in the first place, and if you don't plan to deal with the questions
on c.e.x if and when they arise.  I do plan to deal with those
questions _personally_, so I'd like some input into anything that
changes the distribution that ordinary users see.



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