From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 22 23:45:28 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0DDBCF2D; Sat, 22 Nov 2014 23:45:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from www.lemis.com (www.lemis.com [208.86.226.86]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA197342; Sat, 22 Nov 2014 23:45:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from eureka.lemis.com (www.lemis.com [208.86.226.86]) by www.lemis.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A36D1B72863; Sat, 22 Nov 2014 23:39:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eureka.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 2E451F75D4; Sun, 23 Nov 2014 10:39:11 +1100 (EST) Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 10:39:11 +1100 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: "Christopher J. Ruwe" Subject: Re: value of maintaining emacs-mode packages in ports Message-ID: <20141122233911.GA48163@eureka.lemis.com> References: <1416699134.31598.2.camel@mccarthy> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="nFreZHaLTZJo0R7j" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1416699134.31598.2.camel@mccarthy> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-3-5346-1370 Mobile: None. Use the landline. WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2014 23:45:28 -0000 --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--