retitle 569013 Why "Suggests" vim and mc (and why not ... emacs)! severity 569013 wishlist tags 569013 moreinfo thanks
Hi, On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 01:50:26PM +0000, Barak A. Pearlmutter wrote: > > Suggests: mc, vim, ... > > What the heck are those for? http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch01.en.html#_midnight_commander_mc http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch01.en.html#_global_substitution_with_regular_expressions http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch11.en.html#_editors_with_auto_conversion > My recommendation: either remove mc & vim, or even better replace mc & > vim with EMACS! Good catch but not good enough. This is "Suggests" and is not "Recommend". Please note that this document has more examples on vim than emacs while giving respectable mention to emacs. To read and practice tutorial section, you have to have these packages. So it it rightful to suggest these, in my opinion. http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch01.en.html#_the_text_editor I think this is as fair as I can be while I am not emacs user. (I only used microEMACS 20 years ago... I wish to learn real emacs some day.) Please note under normal configuration, packages with "Suggests:" are not pulled in automatically (unlike "Recommends:"). I was waiting for Emacs fans to file such bug report. Thanks for filing this bug report. Instead of closing this bug report, I will keep it as "moreinfo" :-) If you can provide good short text for emacs corresponding vim usage in the above example texts, I may consider to include them and change to: Suggests: mc, vim|emacs23|xemacs21|emacsen, ... Osamu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
