>>>> "Simon" == Simon Josefsson
<jas(a)extundo.com> writes:
Simon> But that solution generates extra maintainer work when new
Simon> versions are released etc.
Does Gnus have uses _other_ than generating extra maintainer work? ;-)
Simon> Can the XEmacs package system handle compile-time-only
Simon> dependencies?
That's all the package system does handle, really. package-ui now
does some stuff like installing all the REQUIRES if you ask for them,
but REQUIRES really only contains build-time dependencies.
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.
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