Re: Bug#193439: emacsen-common: debian-emacs-policy and package setup in conffile

2003-06-12 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I really think he's using gnus as an elsip package picked at random > > to illlustrate that some packages break when you --remove them > > (everything is fine when you --purge). The broken packages must be > > due to following some template file; gr

Re: Bug#193439: emacsen-common: debian-emacs-policy and package setup in conffile

2003-06-12 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 20:41:07 -0400, Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 15:40:47 +0200, Kai Großjohann >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> >> > But the situation that Emacs stops working after "dpkg --purge >> > gnus", say,

Re: Bug#193439: emacsen-common: debian-emacs-policy and package setup in conffile

2003-06-12 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 15:40:47 +0200, Kai Großjohann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > But the situation that Emacs stops working after "dpkg --purge > > gnus", say, MUST be changed. > > This is the second time you have mentioned this foul > ca

Re: Bug#193439: emacsen-common: debian-emacs-policy and package setup in conffile

2003-06-12 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 15:36:22 +0200, Kai Großjohann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I really have not seen the benefit of this split. If I have stuff >> under /etc I am takling care of anyway, I would rather not spend >> effort and code adding yet anothe

Re: Bug#193439: emacsen-common: debian-emacs-policy and package setup in conffile

2003-06-12 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 15:40:47 +0200, Kai Großjohann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > But the situation that Emacs stops working after "dpkg --purge > gnus", say, MUST be changed. This is the second time you have mentioned this foul canard. Please demonstrate why purging (or even removing) G

Re: Bug#193439: emacsen-common: debian-emacs-policy and package setup in conffile

2003-06-12 Thread Kai Großjohann
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I beg to differ. I have two different Gnusii in my load-path > -- and I can change the load-path to use one or the other. Same goes > for bbdb, w3m, and a bunch of other things. The version of bbdb I use > matters a lot to me. Well, if you i

Re: Bug#193439: emacsen-common: debian-emacs-policy and package setup in conffile

2003-06-12 Thread Kai Großjohann
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I really have not seen the benefit of this split. If I have > stuff under /etc I am takling care of anyway, I would rather not > spend effort and code adding yet another directory and files to load > up. The benefit of the split is that Ema