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From: 320095285153-0001@t-online.de (Achim Gottinger)
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] emacs-x11 package
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 20:30:18
Message-Id: 3A80BB35.F29FDD0F@gottinger.de
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] emacs-x11 package by Pete Gavin
1 Pete Gavin wrote:
2
3 > Hi,
4 >
5 > Right now the emacs-x11 package is installed in prefix /usr/X11R6, but
6 > the emacs-nogui package is installed in /usr. I don't think its a good
7 > idea to install a package in a different prefix just because its using
8 > a different configuration, becuase if another package depends on it,
9 > it will have to take into account all the different prefixes it could
10 > be in. I especially think emacs should always be in /usr, because
11 > thats where it's traditionally put, and thats where scripts and
12 > whatnot expect it to be, and it's really a console based editor more
13 > than it's a X11 editor (the x11 gui is more of a hack than
14 > anything...)
15
16 True. Do you want to change it for emacs-X11 and emacs-motif ?
17
18 achim
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20 >
21 >
22 > Pete
23 >
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