can't install pgk

[Uwe Brauer]

On 28 Jun 2004, stephen at xemacs.org wrote:

>>> "SY" == Steve Youngs <steve at youngs.au.com> writes:

    SY> And what's your aversion to using PUI instead of trying to do
    SY> things manually?

>Consistency with the way he does things for 3rd party packages that we
>don't support yet, no doubt.
That is one point, the other one, that sometimes with bad connection
PUI freezes, and I have to kill XEmacs.


>It would be nice if we could swap {lisp,etc,lib-src,...}/$package ->
>$package/{lisp,etc,lib-src,...} when we start supporting 3rd party
>packages in PUI.  (Among other things, that would mostly buy us
>run-in-place without symlinks, and it would make maintainers whose
>packages dispatch out of a toplevel main library into various
>subdirectories a lot happier.)  Granted, this would be hell on some
>complex packages, I suspect Gnus would be one and mule-ucs would be
>another, but we could get around that by having a separate hierarchy
>for inverted packages, and leave Gnus and mule-ucs where they are.


That would be indeed a very nice, idea.