Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 10:39:11 +1100 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: "Christopher J. Ruwe" <cjr@cruwe.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: value of maintaining emacs-mode packages in ports Message-ID: <20141122233911.GA48163@eureka.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <1416699134.31598.2.camel@mccarthy> References: <1416699134.31598.2.camel@mccarthy>
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--nFreZHaLTZJo0R7j Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Sunday, 23 November 2014 at 0:32:14 +0100, Christopher J. Ruwe wrote: > I am well aware that very probably I might be starting a rant thread, > however, I am genuinely interested in opinions from the community. > > Since version 24, Emacs, the very good operating system missing only a > decent editor, has developed a package manager for Emacs > extensions. Some good repos exist, packages are usually installed to >> /.emacs.d and I have come to really enjoy that way of installing > packages. > > In that light and as the ports maintainer of math/ess, the Emacs > speaks statistics R-mode of emacs, I am asking myself specifically > whether I add any real benefit in maintaining math/ess. More > generally, I am interested in community answers as to whether it is > really useful to maintain Emacs-extension-packages in ports. A good question. I was wondering that myself. I'd be happy to retire our versions. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Sent from my desktop computer. Finger grog@FreeBSD.org for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. This message is digitally signed. If your Microsoft MUA reports problems, please read http://tinyurl.com/broken-mua --nFreZHaLTZJo0R7j Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAlRxHp4ACgkQIubykFB6QiOjgQCfeKe9YJvaYHcb9vYAl4ZPnbUQ NN0An2NLqWxZzT0AfaWAjdUmmFmYYciE =gEcr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nFreZHaLTZJo0R7j--
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