On 2008-10-16 05:21 +0200, Jude DaShiell wrote: > The packages like gnus and calc in emacs 21 once emacs 22 is installed > are superfluous packages because both calc and gnus are included as > commands that can be run inside emacs 22.
For calc, that's true and the calc package has been removed from Lenny already. For Gnus, this is only partly true, since the standalone gnus package is based on a development version and has features not included in Emacs 22. > There may be other emacs > add-ons in this class, I don't know for sure. It's possible > timidity-el and edb may be in this class as well. Doesn't seem so. > What happens when > someone tries installing a superfluous package in aptitude or apt-get > is a can't get file lock error. This happens to _you_, as you have stated multiple times on this list. Apparently it does not happen to anyone else, or there would have been more complaints about it. > Wouldn't it make more sense to inform > the user in these and similar situations that they're attempting to > install superfluous packages and that if they continue in this case > emacs 22 will have to be removed and replaced by emacs 21 a downgrade > and then the requested packages will then be installed? Why that? It is perfectly reasonable to install both emacs22 and emacs21 and to install add-ons that only work with one of them. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
