A few days ago I installed a Debian system (V3.0r1). When emacs is invoked it says "No /etc/mailname. Reverting to default..." and waits for 3 seconds. Of course this is very undesirable.
It is easy to solve this. Solution 1: # echo "Debian is broken" > /etc/mailname # Solution 2: # ed /etc/emacs/site-start.d/00debian-vars.el 1849 /(sit-for 3)/s/// w 1838 q # Something is broken. Probably this must be regarded as a bug in the Debian installation process. At first sight the problem seems to be that /etc/mailname does not belong to any package, so that there are no dependencies. The fact that it does not belong to a package also makes it more difficult to use http://www.debian.org/Bugs/ that wants a package name. Andries -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
