Richard Cobbe wrote:
On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 01:23:29PM -0400, Robert Froese wrote:
Hi all,
I installed the package xemacs to use with ess and R on my
tiger-upgraded powerbook today. And it wouldn't work with my old
init.el because initialization hung with "Cannot open load file:
pending-del".
It seems that there are some required xemacs packages that aren't
installed with the fink xemacs package. It took a while, but I
eventually found out that pending-del is part of the xemacs pc package.
After some time I found an xemacs ftp site that would work and after
installing the pc package, and a resart, surprise: there was a new
package that was required but not included.
"Required" depends on the user.
I suspect that the Fink package xemacs-sumo-pkg will take care of
installing just about all of the necessary xemacs packages.
I don't know why the maintainers decided to keep this a separate Fink
package, so I won't try to argue otherwise.
Same reason why the maintainers of XEmacs itself decided to package this
separately and not to include it in the standard XEmacs distribution:
Because it is HUGE. And you don't need it. I have been using Fink's
xemacs for years on various machines without ever installing sumo.
XEmacs has its own package manager system which I prefer to a huge Fink
package which would not only install a bunch of stuff that I never need,
but would also never be completely up-to-date. I prefer the flexibility
that we have right now.
But xemacs has a de facto dependency on xemacs-sumo-pkg, and it would be
nice if this were documented clearly somewhere.
The only complaint I have is a very old one: The xemacs-sumo-pkg package
description "All xemacs packages together" has tricked countless newbies
into believing that it is sufficient to install xemacs-sumo-pkg and
surprised them by not installing an xemacs executable.
--
Martin
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