Romain Francoise wrote:
The fine folks at Ubuntu have added a new `emacs-meta' source package to their distribution which provides empty binary packages `emacs' and `emacs-nox' that just depend on emacs21 and emacs21-nox:<URL: ftp://ftp.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/e/emacs-meta/> It allows newbies to just `apt-get install emacs', sparing them the need to search for a specific flavor. I think Debian should have something similar, perhaps in emacsen-common. Opinions?
That would be a good idea, indeed. Similar packages already exist in Debian for gcc and python, for instance. And since Emacs major versions have a release cycle of 4-5 years, such a metapackage would not need to be updated too often... ;-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
