Grey Matter

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

~ writes:

 > I simply ran the setup program and did specify that I wanted all
 > the options.  Funny thing but GNU emacs seems to not have this
 > problem.

They *can't* have this problem.  GNU Emacs doesn't provide a package
system; you get absolutely everything they offer, no less, and no
more.  They've seen the light; the next version of GNU Emacs will
provide a package system.  My bet is that the one after that will be
similar to XEmacs's (i.e., most applications will be provided
separately), as the burden on developers of bootstrapping a whole
system from scratch has become very large, and will only get larger as
more packages are added.