>>>> "Aidan" == Aidan Kehoe
<kehoea(a)parhasard.net> writes:
Aidan> Ar an chéad lá is fiche de mí Márta, scríobh Michael Sperber:
>>
>>>> "Aidan" == Aidan
Kehoe <kehoea(a)parhasard.net> writes:
>
Aidan> Ar an chéad lá is fiche de mí Márta, scríobh Michael Sperber:
>
Aidan> Can you suggest a better way to do it? sendmail-user-agent can’t
Aidan> handle MIME, so we should not ship with it as our default mailer
Aidan> if that is avoidable.
>>
>
>> >> Well, in the
context of our policy, I'd say it is unavoidable. Even
>> >> if our policy were different, the change should be made in VM, not the
>> >> core.
>
Aidan> If it prevents solving this problem, we should
change our
Aidan> policy. And XEmacs’ defaults are XEmacs’ business, not the
Aidan> packages’. I, at least, would swear energetically at MH-E, if
Aidan> installing it overrode the default mail sending package _as it is
Aidan> described in the manual._
>
>> Then that's a bug---we did quite an energetic
sweep through all the
>> packages to make sure this kind of thing doesn't happen.
Aidan> That was a hypothetical, describing what could reasonably happen if we
Aidan> gave responsibility for XEmacs’ defaults to the packages. XEmacs’ defaults
Aidan> 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. Not the least
because if creates dependencies where we already have way too many.
--
Cheers =8-} Mike
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