From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 6 10:40:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from localhost.localdomain (host68.207.55.120.aadsl.com [207.55.120.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D436137B405 for ; Mon, 6 Aug 2001 10:40:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from swear@aa.net) Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f76HgYG44265; Mon, 6 Aug 2001 10:42:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from swear@aa.net) X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localdomain: jojo set sender to swear@aa.net using -f To: judmarc@mindspring.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Xemacs and Gnus (was Re: Wrapper Won't Install on XFree86-4.1) References: <200108061020.GAA28221@blount.mail.mindspring.net> From: swear@aa.net (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: 06 Aug 2001 10:42:33 -0700 In-Reply-To: <200108061020.GAA28221@blount.mail.mindspring.net> Message-ID: Lines: 27 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jud writes: > I built the Xemacs 21.1.14 port, then built the gnus-emacs > port using the directions for installing Gnus at the following page: > > http://mwiehl.socha.net/Gnus/tutorial/html/gnus-tutorial_2.html#SEC4 > > But no joy - Xemacs gives me the message that the "symbol 'gnus' is > void," or something like that... There's something badly missing from the ports system, namely a way to determine what ports/packages to use when there are multiple versions and related-packages. There are "meta" ports, but they are not well- enough developed or not enough of them or at least not well documented. Anyway, have you tried installing /usr/ports/editors/xemacs-comm-packages/ ? That looks like the port with the Gnus I'm probably using. I will also say that configuring Gnus can be a loooooooong process. A question for you: What's the etiquette on addressing mailing list mail? (I've limitted myself to newsgroups until now.) Are people expected to have their mail readers set up to drop mail from both the human and the list server? Is it OK to reply only to the list so those with crummy readers don't get two? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message