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Hi all, |
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Yesterday the Emacs Project Overlay has been created on |
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overlays.gentoo.org and is accessible through Layman $(layman -a |
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emacs). What's new? |
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* An eselect module for Emacs to control the version of Emacs you use |
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** changes the target of /usr/bin/emacs which up to now simply took the |
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most current one |
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** setting symlinks to the correct man pages |
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** setting the correct INFOPATH to let info find the correct nodes |
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** brings desktop file including icon to avoid file collisions |
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* updated ebuilds for all versions of Emacs (Emacs 18 and 21, plus CVS |
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Emacs 22 and 23). In detail they bring (for CVS versions only): |
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** work together with the eselect module (all versions actually) |
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** new/removed USE flags and changed the behaviour of some: |
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added sound: disables/enables sound support |
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modified alsa: really kills ALSA detection if not enabled, if enabled |
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also activates sound on its own |
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removed nls: Emacs brings its own gettext.h |
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removed gnome: was only needed for the icon of the desktop file, |
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which is included in the eselect ebuild now |
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* Emacs 23 has all the new cool ebuild features Emacs 22 already had |
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(see ChangeLog in tree) |
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* revamped DEPEND and RDEPEND, all package atoms should be in the |
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correct place now |
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* updated version of elisp.eclass and elisp-common.eclass (mainly |
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documentation to the functions along with examples) |
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* updated version of app-emacs/ebuild-mode (Emacs support |
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for .eclass, .ebuild and .eselect files, mostly some added keywords) |
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We need testing, as Emacs is widely used and such big changes can't be |
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brought to the main tree over-night: |
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Functionality in general: Do all Emacs versions from 18 to 23 work |
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fine? |
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File collisions: Which versions of Emacs overwrite a file owned by |
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another? FEATURES=collision-protect is the magic word. |
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eselect functionality: Is switching working as expected? |
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If you feel like trying all that, ceck the overlay out and file bugs or |
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write an email to the Emacs team. Special thanks go out to Ulrich |
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Müller as he gave a lot of feedback and inspiration. |
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<URL:http://www.faulhammer.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=165> |
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(URL to my Planet post, which has same contents) |
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V-Li |
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