BBDB et al. prevent Emacs from being installed

I have noticed that certain Debian packages that install files into `/etc/emacs/site-start.d/' prevent Emacs from being installed. One such package is `bbdb'; two others are `dictionaries-common' and `dictionary-el'. To see the problem in action, first make sure you have BBDB installed. (As I said

Re: New from emacs-snapshot

I write: > Jérôme Marant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> "Davide G. M. Salvetti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> BTW, I think the issue of /usr/local/ in load-path is a major one to >>> allow emacsen add-on packages to install correctly. However, for the >>> moment I fail to understand why th

Re: New from emacs-snapshot

Jérôme Marant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Davide G. M. Salvetti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> BTW, I think the issue of /usr/local/ in load-path is a major one to >> allow emacsen add-on packages to install correctly. However, for the >> moment I fail to understand why that path gets added

Re: emacs.app for GNUstep for debian

Gürkan Sengün <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi Miles, > >> I expect one potential problem is that of user confusion -- if >> somebody sees an "emacs.app" package they'll probably think it's at >> least a semi-recent version of emacs. > > Wait you think this 20 version is not semi-recent? > What do

Re: emacs.app for GNUstep for debian

Hi Miles, > I expect one potential problem is that of user confusion -- if > somebody sees an "emacs.app" package they'll probably think it's at > least a semi-recent version of emacs. Wait you think this 20 version is not semi-recent? What do you think is this, then? http://www.linuks.mine.nu/op

Re: emacs.app for GNUstep for debian

Miles Bader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I expect one potential problem is that of user confusion -- if > somebody sees an "emacs.app" package they'll probably think it's at > least a semi-recent version of emacs. For the same reason, dealing > with bugs becomes more complicated. I personay thi

Re: Re: emacs.app for GNUstep for debian

I expect one potential problem is that of user confusion -- if somebody sees an "emacs.app" package they'll probably think it's at least a semi-recent version of emacs. For the same reason, dealing with bugs becomes more complicated. -Miles -- Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.