Dan Jacobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I probably use the mule-ucs package once a year, but to have it > installed means that it gets loaded every time I start emacs. > > Perhaps dpkg-reconfigure mule-ucs [and other hefty packages] could ask > if one wants to have the package on one's system, but not loaded. > > One might say one could just install and remove the package when > needed. But for offline users, that is bad. > > By the way, if in the future dpkg-reconfigure will be used to set > non-loading, it shouldn't go ahead and do remove/mule-ucs: Handling > removal of emacsen flavor emacs21 ... done. install/mule-ucs: > Byte-compiling for emacs21 ...This will take a while ... done. if not > necessary.
File a wishlist bug against the package? Personally, I _don't_ use debconf to configure elisp packages, biut rather use the Emacs customize interface, which seems better suited to the task. Peter
