From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tribhuvan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Software/HD ecology Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 23:15:45 GMT Organization: Optimum Online Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3E04F672.2090606@rcn.com> References: <041220020952400758%ajanta@no.spam> <071220021155280606%ajanta@no.spam> <5ld6obj8il.fsf@rum.cs.yale.edu> <091220021652087216%ajanta@no.spam> <111220021101520860%ajanta@no.spam> <111220021253524057%ajanta@no.spam> <5l65u0i8zj.fsf@rum.cs.yale.edu> <111220022053507599%ajanta@no.spam> <87u1hjdwta.fsf@hurd.crasseux.com> <121220021324043990%ajanta@no.spam> <171220021132381961%ajanta@no.spam> <3DFFA457.1020103@rcn.com> <844r9b3exh.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> <87y96m3xhg.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> <1mr8ceoypu.fsf@Tempo.Update.UU.SE> <87wum4w7nj.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> <1mfzsrblka.fsf@Tempo.Update.UU.SE> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1040513051 19298 80.91.224.249 (21 Dec 2002 23:24:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 23:24:11 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18PsxZ-0004zM-00 for ; Sun, 22 Dec 2002 00:23:11 +0100 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 18PsvT-0000dU-07 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 21 Dec 2002 18:20:59 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed1.cidera.com!Cidera!cyclone2.usenetserver.com!news.webusenet.com!news01.optonline.net!news4.srv.hcvlny.cv.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020920 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.text.tex,gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 20 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.189.235.22 Original-X-Trace: news4.srv.hcvlny.cv.net 1040512545 24.189.235.22 (Sat, 21 Dec 2002 18:15:45 EST) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 18:15:45 EST Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu comp.sys.mac.apps:349501 gnu.emacs.help:108411 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:4940 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:4940 Fredrik Staxeng wrote: > Yes, coding standards do not, on their own, actually do anything. > The addition to the coding standards would be "the configure script > should check for the existence of gnu-install". Which doesn't at all get in the way of anyone who does not want to implement gnu-install > I would like to be able to force packages to use a tool that I trust. > If it is easy enough to do, I would implement support for it and send > patches to the maintainer. If it's kept to basically to: 1) logging the cp operations of `make install` 2) providing a script to remove part or all of what's in the log It shouldn't get too monsterous.