From: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 47159@debbugs.gnu.org, larsi@gnus.org
Subject: bug#47159: 28.0.50; gnutls not recognized in build process without pkg-config
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2021 12:09:20 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YFRqQLFuN/GYmhg7@protected.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83tup8bt6w.fsf@gnu.org>
* Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> [2021-03-18 14:25]:
> > Developers may forget those very basic packages/software as they
> > rarely develop from a plain system.
>
> Please don't generalize what is basically a simple oversight to imply
> that Emacs developers are incompetent: the test for pkg-config is
> there, we just don't announce its failure to the user.
You know well how much I appreciate your work and others' work.
I am last person who would think "Emacs developers are incompetent" --
hey!
Note the words "may forget those very basic packages" -- "may forget",
it is not meant as a rule.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-19 9:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-15 12:53 bug#47159: 28.0.50; gnutls not recognized in build process without pkg-config Jean Louis
2021-03-18 5:52 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-03-18 10:59 ` Jean Louis
2021-03-18 11:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-19 9:09 ` Jean Louis [this message]
2021-03-19 11:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-18 11:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-18 15:26 ` Glenn Morris
2021-03-19 7:59 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-03-20 6:44 ` Jean Louis
2021-03-20 7:52 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-03-21 13:39 ` Jean Louis
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