Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I really think he's using gnus as an elsip package picked at random > > to illlustrate that some packages break when you --remove them > > (everything is fine when you --purge). The broken packages must be > > due to following some template file; grep for "Nils Naumann" in > > there... > > Well, it certainly did not come across that way.
Email is harder than face-to-face. I never see the same spin when the message is not directed at me. > > Kai is not a DD, just a very competent emacs person. Please cut him > > some slack. > > I have spent some effort trying to ensure that Gnus is > packaged well, and that it does behave properly when removed, or > purged. I do find it irritating that competent emacs users (and I > have been the beneficiary of Kai's skills in the past) think there is > something wrong in the packaging and yet are not pointg it out to be > fixed. > > But my point remains: Unless someone can show me how VM or > Gnus mosbehave, we do not need to create more poliocy and additional > directories to avoid buggy behaviour. Well, for the record, _my_ packages were broken in that they setup stuff that was no longer there. I have fixed that. In my defense they were done early in my DD times and I was following a template. Fixing that template will take care of a lot of problems. We don't really need another directory. We can load another (uneditable) startup file from the /etc startup file. Peter
