From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Robert J. Chassell" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Development package hint in INSTALL for GNU/Linux? Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 12:02:07 +0000 (UTC) Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: Reply-To: bob@rattlesnake.com NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1051617859 20518 80.91.224.249 (29 Apr 2003 12:04:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 12:04:19 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 29 14:04:18 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19ATqM-0005Kk-00 for ; Tue, 29 Apr 2003 14:04:18 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19ATz0-0000b3-00 for ; Tue, 29 Apr 2003 14:13:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 19ATpz-0004fH-02 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Tue, 29 Apr 2003 08:03:55 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 19ATpG-0004Ev-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Apr 2003 08:03:10 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 19AToO-0003pG-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Apr 2003 08:02:17 -0400 Original-Received: from megalith.rattlesnake.com ([140.186.114.245] helo=rattlesnake.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 19AToH-0003lf-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Apr 2003 08:02:10 -0400 Original-Received: by rattlesnake.com via sendmail from stdin id (Debian Smail3.2.0.114) Tue, 29 Apr 2003 12:02:07 +0000 (UTC) Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org In-reply-to: (message from Andreas Davour on Tue, 29 Apr 2003 09:06:43 +0200 (CEST)) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:13545 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:13545 > The general idea is good, but I think that "X11 development package" > is too vague. It would be good to list the names it has in Debian and > Red Hat. And likewise for a couple of other specific packages one > may need. Maybe it's best to just note that the header files are needed. If we start mentioning Debian/RedHat package names they'll probably change names next week. .... It is better to list the names. The names do change, but not frequently. Even obsolete names are better than none. The reason is that I did not know that the Red Hat or Debian dev packages have the requisite files in them. If you said `you need the header files' I would have thought that I needed to download complete source packages. That is what I have done in the past. Since I have a slow connection, this has taken me considerable time. If you just say that Red Hat and Debian dev packages have the necessary files in them, then I have to figure out their names. That takes time, too. Better to list them. Then, even if a name has changed from, for example, libxaw6-dev to libxaw7-dev, I can readily figure out what I need. -- Robert J. Chassell Rattlesnake Enterprises http://www.rattlesnake.com GnuPG Key ID: 004B4AC8 http://www.teak.cc bob@rattlesnake.com