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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: gebser@speakeasy.net
Subject: Re: Default init files in GNU/Linux distributions (was: bug in 22.0.50.1 ?? no rmailgen.el)
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 13:41:34 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <upseibj4x.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <v9bqq41s65.fsf_-_@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> (message from Reiner Steib on Mon, 28 Aug 2006 23:12:02 +0200)

> From: Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 23:12:02 +0200
> 
> On Mon, Aug 28 2006, ken wrote:
> 
> [ ~/.gnu-emacs file ]
> > My best and most dispassionate estimation is that it was put there when
> > the account was created-- it is a standard file in /etc/skel/-- 
> 
> It's probably from SUSE's Emacs package:
> 
> $ rpm -qf /etc/skel/.gnu-emacs
> emacs-21.3-206
> $ cat /etc/SuSE-release 
> SUSE LINUX 10.0 (i586) OSS
> VERSION = 10.0
> 
> SUSE reads ~/.gnu-emacs from ~/.emacs when not running XEmacs.  But as
> we can see, some of the tests in those files are broken or at least
> only suitable when using the Emacs packages from the distribution.
> 
> There's lot of other code in ~/.emacs / .gnu-emacs from SUSE that I
> would not recommend.

In that case, I'd suggest to send a bug report to the SUSE
maintainers.

Thanks.

  reply	other threads:[~2006-08-30 10:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-26 16:33 bug in 22.0.50.1 ?? no rmailgen.el ken
2006-08-27 16:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-08-27 19:25   ` ken
2006-08-27 22:29     ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-08-28  0:52       ` ken
2006-08-28 12:44         ` Robert J. Chassell
2006-08-28 21:12         ` Default init files in GNU/Linux distributions (was: bug in 22.0.50.1 ?? no rmailgen.el) Reiner Steib
2006-08-30 10:41           ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2006-08-28 22:10         ` bug in 22.0.50.1 ?? no rmailgen.el Richard Stallman
2006-08-27 23:09     ` Nick Roberts
2006-08-28  1:01       ` ken
2006-08-28 22:10         ` Richard Stallman

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