From owner-freebsd-current Mon Feb 8 18:22:42 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA16534 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 18:22:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from adelphi.physics.adelaide.edu.au (adelphi.physics.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.36.247]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA16523; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 18:22:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au) Received: from bragg (bragg [129.127.36.34]) by adelphi.physics.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.8/8.8.8/UofA-1.5) with SMTP id MAA07522; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 12:52:35 +1030 (CST) Received: from localhost by bragg; (5.65/1.1.8.2/05Aug95-0227PM) id AA05984; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 12:52:35 +1030 Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 12:52:35 +1030 (CST) From: Kris Kennaway X-Sender: kkennawa@bragg To: Satoshi Asami Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: emacs directories in BSD.local.dist In-Reply-To: <199902090201.SAA67542@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 8 Feb 1999, Satoshi Asami wrote: > * Just curious as to why share/emacs and share/emacs/site-lisp are created by > * BSD.local.dist instead of by the emacs ports which might want to use them? > * It's not a big deal, but it seems to me that these aren't useful for the > * general case of someone not wanting to install an emacs port (strange as that > * may sound [1]). I suspect it's for historical reasons, but it doesnt mean it > * can't be removed if sufficient time is deemed to have passed. > > Actually it's the other way around. It's created by BSD.local.dist so > that people who don't need emacs don't have to install them. :) > > The problem is that many ports, some of which only install .el files > as a "by the way, you can use this from emacs too", fall over if this > directory is not around. One solution is to add RUN_DEPENDS to emacs, > which causes a whole lot of unhappiness, of course. Ahh, that makes sense. Thanks for the explanation. Kris ----- (ASP) Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) announced today that the release of its productivity suite, Office 2000, will be delayed until the first quarter of 1901. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message