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From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: app-editors/emacs:21 and app-editors/emacs:22
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 20:41:05
Message-Id: 20199.47160.964326.332858@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: app-editors/emacs:21 and app-editors/emacs:22 by Thomas Kahle
1 >>>>> On Tue, 13 Dec 2011, Thomas Kahle wrote:
2
3 >> # Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> (13 Dec 2011)
4 >> # SLOTs 21 and 22 of app-editors/emacs, corresponding to
5 >> # GNU Emacs versions 21.4 and 22.3. These versions were
6 >> # released in February 2005 and September 2008, respectively.
7 >> # Please upgrade to app-editors/emacs-23.3 and update your
8 >> # Emacs Lisp packages with emacs-updater.
9 >> # Masked for removal in 60 days, or after the release of
10 >> # GNU Emacs 24.1, whatever will occur later. Bug 394589.
11 >> =app-editors/emacs-21*
12 >> =app-editors/emacs-22*
13 >> <virtual/emacs-23
14
15 > May I quote my mentor fauli here:
16
17 > "If you need a fast emacs clone, why not use emacs-21 ?"
18
19 Heh, we still keep app-editors/emacs:18 which is even faster. ;-)
20 And much simpler [1].
21
22 > (I'm not saying they should not be removed).
23
24 Ulrich
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26 [1] <http://www2.fz-juelich.de/jsc//docs/bhb/bhb_html/d0115/emacs_398.html>

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