Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=478613 --- Comment #4 from Jim Radford <radford@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 2009-03-15 10:55:04 EDT --- (In reply to comment #3) > (In reply to comment #2) > > (In reply to comment #1) > > > - If packaging Emacs modes, you might want to consider making a separate > > > subpackage that depends on emacs. See for instance how I handle it for vala: > > > http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/devel/vala/vala.spec?revision=1.36 > > I think this is overkill for small files (like .el files). Plus, I can't > > picture wanting emacs installed because I installed ledger. > Sure, you don't want to get emacs pulled in by default. Which is why I > suggested splitting off the emacs editing modes; this is the convention for > other packages that come with emacs modes; see e.g. Let's just say I have emacs installed and I use it, and I hear about ledger, so I install it (yum install ledger) and start playing around with it. I open a few ledger text files, but no emacs mode is auto-detected. I probably wouldn't even know a ledger mode exists because some packager didn't bother to install a single text file. User cost: lack of a full experience, User gain: 4k disk savings and no dangling directory. Let's say we did include a the el files. The user always gets the full access to ledger mode. User benefit: satisfaction, User cost: 4k disk usage and a dangling directory. As far as I'm concerned the dangling directory is a tool bug/wart and should be treated as such. Same with not being able to automatically install emacs-ledger if someone installs ledger and emacs. Another tool bug. Without these being fixed, there is a *clear* choice that make the user's life better with *very* little cost. > emacs-{gambit,git,gnuplot,lua,mercurial,pyrex,vala}). All of these are split > off from their main packages, so that the main package itself does not depend > on Emacs. I think these should be fixed as well. The emacs-git situation is totally uncalled for. vc-git should just work out of the box if I "yum install git". -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-review mailing list Fedora-package-review@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-review