Sven Joachim <svenj...@gmx.de> writes: > Probably emacs-install would need to be changed to take package > dependencies into account, but the emacsen-common package does not > seem to be maintained currently.
Depending on what you mean, emacs-install does take package dependencies into account. See generate-install-list, which calls tsort to do the heavy lifting. Some of this infrastructure (which is quite old a this point, but has served us fairly well), may or may not be the best approach now. Back when it was created, there were no triggers. Now, we may have other options. However, I'm fairly cautious when considering changes to emacsen-common and/or debian-emacs policy since there are many moving parts, and a lot of tricky details. As I recall, there are quite a lot of (possibly non-obvious) things that you can get wrong if you're not careful. -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org; previously @cs.utexas.edu GPG as of 2002-11-03 14DD 432F AE39 534D B592 F9A0 25C8 D377 8C7E 73A4 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-emacsen-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
