Ar an dara lá is fiche de mí Márta, scríobh Michael Sperber:
Aidan> That was a hypothetical, describing what could reasonably
happen
Aidan> if we gave responsibility for XEmacs’ defaults to the
Aidan> packages. XEmacs’ defaults should be XEmacs’ responsibility.
Sorry for the confusion---but, to take this one step further, I would
swear energetically at VM if the the pure act of installing it would
change anything about the behavior of my XEmacs.
In this proposed patch’s case, to behaviour that the XEmacs developers
prefer and have documented, and that has the real-life immediate benefit
that people can attach things--files that trigger crashes, for example--to
their bug reports out of the box? Why? This isn’t MH-E, where you need an
external program to have any sort of mail reading functionality, this isn’t
Gnus where the mail sending buffer has different bindings, the effective
change is that the default mailer now has MIME support, which is
unreservedly a good thing.
I think we should think long and hard when changing XEmacs defaults based on
what packages are installed, but I think also that there are cases where it
should be done.
Not the least because if creates dependencies where we already have
way
too many.
What dependencies does it create? If VM is installed, either its
dependencies are too, or we already have a problem. There are admittedly
more code paths to test in this case; that’s part of why we should think
long and hard before changing any XEmacs defaults based on the packages that
are present.
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