On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 4:03 PM, Stephen John Smoogen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Corey Kovacs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Some of my users came to me today asking where xemacs went after a >> RHEL5.2 install. I didn't have a good answer for them except that >> someone seems to have decided that in RHEL, xemacs is dead. I am >> curious who made that decision and why? I am not an emacs user but I >> find it hard to digest that something like that would be removed. >> > > I could see multiple reasons. > > 1. xemacs in the far past had a small user base in comparison to > emacs, vi or even joe (as seen by number of downloads and how many > systems have it installed.) It hasnt had any spectacular growth in > news that I could see that changing. > 2. for a while there was not much work being done by anyone in Fedora on it. > 3 It is also a large set of packages that duplicate stuff in emacs > (though in some ways better or worse depending on your religious > choices). > >> Anyone?
If the users are interested in having it included in an outside repository they can work with rpmrepo or EPEL on getting it included in the build system. -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- BSD/GNU/Linux How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice" _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list rhelv5-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
