"Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen(a)xemacs.org> writes:
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.
What bad consequences would giving it up have? I'm not sure I
understand what problems users really would encounter.