-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Mike Frysinger wrote: | On Sunday 30 March 2008, Ulrich Mueller wrote: |>>>>>> On Sun, 30 Mar 2008, Mike Frysinger wrote: |>>> And IMHO the "emacs" USE flag should not be used here: |>>> |>>> $ ./configure -hs |>>> Configuration of Leafpad 0.8.12: |>>> |>>> Optional Features: |>>> [...] |>>> --enable-emacs implement Emacs key theme (experimental) |>>> |>>> $ equery uses =leafpad-0.8.12 |>>> [...] |>>> + + emacs : Adds support for GNU Emacs |>>> |>>> As its description says, the flag is intended for GNU Emacs support |>>> which is not the case here. |>> i think the USE flag makes sense. perhaps the description should be |>> changed. |> Certainly a USE flag makes sense here, but it shouldn't be USE=emacs. |> |> The "emacs" global USE flag is used by 82 other packages (all outside |> the app-emacs category). Its purpose is always that GNU Emacs specific |> files are installed; either directly, or indirectly by pulling another |> package via *DEPEND. | | why cant it mean both ? USE flags are intended to control features, not | dependencies. often times that just happens to translate into dependencies. | realistically though, anyone who wants "emacs" wants all emacs "things". if | it were to just pull in the emacs dependency, then that could just as easily | be accomplished by `emerge emacs` and then we can drop the USE flag entirely. | -mike
If this in an emacs thing, then I guess it includes its own emacs-compatible elisp implementation with editor primitives exported to the user? Otherwise customizability is something of a laugh. Keybindings can be rewired. Simply having the same default keybindings as emacs does not make a package emacsy. Seeing as this is an editor and a "GTK+ based simple text editor" I doubt it has much claim to emacs-ness. If my explanation doesn't make any sense to anyone, please trust our emacs team's judgement in this. Marijn - -- Marijn Schouten (hkBst), Gentoo Lisp project, Gentoo ML <http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/lisp/>, #gentoo-{lisp,ml} on FreeNode -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkfwhCAACgkQp/VmCx0OL2yXPgCcD2K/7QKMe1V6S2mmXNRj213n KmkAoJs7Tdrgka4Hgm33AdplqtTf+MH+ =4jAE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [email protected] mailing list
