[V] Re: [PATCH] Saner MIME character set defaults in Gnus.

VETO * Aidan Kehoe <kehoea(a)parhasard.net&gt; writes: This scares the shit out of me. How is this a good thing? How will PUI + non-Mule XEmacsen cope with this? This change means the Gnus package will have a dependence on the latin-unity package.[1] That means that when someone running a non-Mule XEmacsen tries to do the right thing in PUI and selects to install/upgrade their Gnus package and then hits `r' to "Add Required Packages", PUI will dutifully add latin-unity. The problem with that is that non-Mule XEmacsen _CANNOT_ install mule packages. And what about people trying to build packages with a non-Mule XEmacs? They'll lose too. They won't be able to build Gnus because `BUILD_WITHOUT_MULE' will be `t' and they won't have access to the latin-unity package. And aren't latin-unity/mule-ucs a big no no for 21.5? Maybe it's just mule-ucs, I'm not sure? I'm sorry, Aiden, but I just can't see how I can accept this patch in its current state. It _might_ be possible if those autoloads are wrapped in... (when (featurep 'mule) ...) And then in the Makefile... ifeq ($(BUILD_WITHOUT_MULE),) REQUIRES += latin-unity endif Yes, that could work, I think. Aiden, how does that sit with you? Footnotes: [1] Yes I see it is a compile-time dependence and not a run-time one, but PUI doesn't make that distinction. -- |---<Steve Youngs>---------------<GnuPG KeyID: A94B3003>---| | I am Dyslexic of Borg. | | Fusistance is retile. Your arse will be laminated. | |------------------------------------&lt;steve(a)sxemacs.org&gt;---|