Re: RFC: flavored provides, i.e. emacs25ish

2016-10-30 Thread Rob Browning
Sean Whitton writes: > To comment on that particular suggestion, it might seem like it was > another variant rather than a metapackage covering all the variants, but > that's just my impression. Hmm, given that this is just a "provides", would something like emacs25-any be plausible? Thanks --

Re: RFC: flavored provides, i.e. emacs25ish

2016-10-30 Thread Sean Whitton
On Sun, Oct 30, 2016 at 08:08:11PM -0500, Rob Browning wrote: > Sean Whitton writes: > > > s/ish/like/ might be easier for non-native English speakers to grasp. > > Heh, yeah, I figured we probably wouldn't end up with that name, but > good point regardless. I suppose we could be even more expl

Re: RFC: flavored provides, i.e. emacs25ish

2016-10-30 Thread David Bremner
Rob Browning writes: > > So I'm contemplating adding a new provides to all of the Emacs binary > packages (e.g. to emacsXY, emacsXY-nox, and emacsXY-lucid). For now, > let's call it emacsXYish, and given that, dh-elpa's deps would become: > > Depends: ... emacs25ish | emacs24ish ... > > Assumi

Re: RFC: flavored provides, i.e. emacs25ish

2016-10-30 Thread Rob Browning
David Bremner writes: > what about gnu-emacs25? Hmm, interesting, though with -variant, or some similar -foo, we'd have an obvious corresponding "xemacs25-variant" if that's ever relevant... If emacs25 weren't already a binary package, that could be what we provide, but I suppose it's preferabl

Re: RFC: flavored provides, i.e. emacs25ish

2016-10-30 Thread Rob Browning
Sean Whitton writes: > s/ish/like/ might be easier for non-native English speakers to grasp. Heh, yeah, I figured we probably wouldn't end up with that name, but good point regardless. I suppose we could be even more explicit with something like emacs25-variant. -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultva

Re: RFC: flavored provides, i.e. emacs25ish

2016-10-30 Thread Sean Whitton
On Sun, Oct 30, 2016 at 03:32:51PM -0500, Rob Browning wrote: > Assuming this is even a good idea, I'd be happy to entertain alternate > names. s/ish/like/ might be easier for non-native English speakers to grasp. -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

RFC: flavored provides, i.e. emacs25ish

2016-10-30 Thread Rob Browning
Right now a tool like dh-elpa, which needs a "viable" flavor of emacsXY at build time has to do something like this: Depends: ... emacs24-nox | emacs24 | emacs24-lucid ... and if emacs24 ends up staying in stretch, that becomes: Depends: ... emacs25-nox | emacs25 | emacs25-lucid