> From: David Kastrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2005 11:03:37 +0200 > Cc: Emacs Devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>, Jason Rumney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Lennart Borgman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > David Kastrup wrote: > > > >>>There are several reasons I think. One reason is that installing new > >>>programs should not change system overall behaviour. > >>> > >>> > >> > >>Then why install them in the first place? > >> > >> > > I am sorry but this does not make sense. > > Why bother to install software if it is not intended to make any > difference?
David, please stop this attitude. This thread is complicated even without nitpicking, and the fact that neither you nor Lennart are native English speakers doesn't help. Did you consider the possibility that you simply misunderstand each other? If you keenly don't understand something, may I suggest that next time you ask a question instead of posting ridicule? What Lennart was saying (AFAIU) is that installing a program should not affect the behavior of the parts of the system which have nothing to do with the program being installed. For example, installing Ghostscript should not affect an FTP client such as NcFTP in any way. If you modify PATH (or any other global environment variable), the potential for the unwanted effect is there. Now, I'm not saying that I could sign my name under this principle, but it certainly isn't ridiculous. _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
