Re: invalid function while using mm
>>>> "Simon" == Simon Josefsson
<jas(a)extundo.com> writes:
Simon> "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen(a)xemacs.org> writes:
> The problem with requiring Gnus is just that everytime we add
> Gnus to some package's REQUIRES, we get farther away from the
> possibility of source packages. Maybe we should just give up
> on that.
Simon> What bad consequences would giving it up have? I'm not
Simon> sure I understand what problems users really would
Simon> encounter.
No binary user problems. There are lots of developers who would like
to make just their packages available, and lots of hackers who would
like to just get a few kB of source rather than the whole 120MB (or
whatever it is now) of package sources.
There are _lots_ of requests for this.
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