[resending because original message did not make it to the list] Joseph Mingrone <[email protected]> writes:
> Yasuhiro KIMURA <[email protected]> writes: >> From: Joseph Mingrone <[email protected]> >> Subject: Are these Emacs ports still useful? >> Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2017 17:29:51 -0400 >>> A quick scan suggests that these port may have passed their usefulness. >>> Could you speak up if they are still useful or if you feel they should >>> be removed? >> (snip) >>> - editors/apel (2010 source) >>> - editors/flim (2007 source) >>> - editors/semi (2003 source) >> They are required by www/emacs-w3m. >> Regards. > They are dependencies for www/emacs-w3m, but are they really required? > Upsreams [1,2] say apel and friends are only required with quite old > versions of Emacs that were released around 2001. > Regards, > Joseph > [1] The original emacs-w3m source, http://emacs-w3m.namazu.org/, says > with Emacs 21.1 (released in 2001) "No additional packages are > required." Other sources, such as [2] have made fixes to the last > release from this source. > [2] The melpa source, > https://github.com/emacsorphanage/w3m/ has no other elisp dependencies.
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