On Sat, Jun 25, 2005 at 03:18:01PM +0200, Martin Costabel wrote: > 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.
That's true; one can certainly install the packages by using XEmacs's package system. In the past, though, I've tried to stay away from that, because it means that /sw is no longer controlled entirely by fink. Many years ago, I got burned fairly badly from a bad interaction between package managers on an old RedHat Linux system. Of course, it could well be the case that fink and the XEmacs package system work well together, in which case there's no reason to stay away from the XEmacs packages. What's your experience with this, Martin? I'm particularly interested in how things work out when you upgrade the xemacs fink package. (Ideally, removal of the xemacs package would also be clean, but that's of a concern for me, as XEmacs is my primary editor, so I'm not going to be getting rid of it any time soon.) Richard ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477&alloc_id=16492&op=click _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list Fink-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
