Re: It's Huntin' Season

2002-02-13 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there any way for the admin to disable loading/autoloading of an > installed elisp package other than editing these files? If not, then they > should be configuration files so that this is possible. There's no way for the admin to disable the loadi

Re: It's Huntin' Season

2002-02-13 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 05:14:57PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > Debian Policy is correct by requiring everything in /etc to be a > conffile. Debian Policy would be incorrect if it required that. Fortunately, it does not. However, it does forbid configuration files from being included in

Re: It's Huntin' Season

2002-02-13 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>"Thomas" == Thomas Bushnell, BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> Could you explain to me, please, exactly what bits of the > >> emacs policy are wrong? I seem to have missed those. > > Thomas> It tells people to put files in /etc which are r

Re: It's Huntin' Season

2002-02-13 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Thomas" == Thomas Bushnell, BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Could you explain to me, please, exactly what bits of the >> emacs policy are wrong? I seem to have missed those. Thomas> It tells people to put files in /etc which are really not conffiles, Thomas> and aren't marked as such

Re: It's Huntin' Season

2002-02-13 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>"Thomas" == Thomas Bushnell, BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Thomas> I think the situation is: Emacs policy is inadvertently > Thomas> wrong. Emacs policy should be fixed. Maintainers who are > Thomas> conforming to Emacs policy should

Proposed change: allow "Depends: emacsen-common".

2002-02-13 Thread Rob Browning
After lengthy discussions with Santiago (who I thank for being persistent and patient), among other things, we've decided that we should consider allowing add-on packages to Depend on emacsen-common. Current policy doesn't allow this, but I can't recally any particularly strong reason (please remi

Re: It's Huntin' Season

2002-02-13 Thread Rob Browning
Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Then your package has a serious(RC) bug. Policy(11.7) states that packages > which place files in /etc(either by having it in the deb, or thru some > maintainer script) *MUST* preserve user edits. > > This doesn't mean you can interpeted as attempting to s

Re: It's Huntin' Season

2002-02-13 Thread Rob Browning
Davide G.M.Salvetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I want to make it clear that auctex doesn't do anything to the load-path > until you "(require 'tex-site)", either manually or via the _optional_ > "50auctex.el", which _might_ be created, at _your_ request. Just a reminder to everyone for add on

Re: InfoDock and Hyperbole?

2002-02-13 Thread Alan Shutko
Christian Lynbech <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I actually have an ancient ITP for hyperbole, and I am gearing up to > step in and do my part. Cool! Have you updated it to work with recent Gnusae? If not, I was working on some patches at one point, which I might still have around. -- Alan Shu

Re: InfoDock and Hyperbole?

2002-02-13 Thread Christian Lynbech
I actually have an ancient ITP for hyperbole, and I am gearing up to step in and do my part. I use hyperbole everyday and the upstream packages has resurfaced on source forge. +- Christian Lynbech | Ericsson Teleb