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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:288213 Archived-At: On Mon, Apr 11, 2022 at 05:09:53PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2022 15:47:49 +0200 >> From: Ergus >> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org >> >> >Emacs doesn't need ctags >> >> So we shouldn't provide ctags by default. > >I'm opposed to dropping stuff just because we can. If you want to add >an option not to install ctags if another version is installed >(similarly to what we do with movemail), that's fine. That may be an acceptable solution... But I will need to learn autotools to implement that myself... >But please >don't argue for dropping parts of Emacs unconditionally because you >personally find it not useful, that argument will never fly with me. I know Eli; But at some point you find that situations like this create more confusion than benefit to the users and require some developer support (man power) we lack of. I usually have the same feeling in the opposite direction; when adding features that are not popular enough to be maintained in the long therm... but that's another discussion.