From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stefan Monnier " Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Software/HD ecology (was Re:...Bug in Emacs 21.3.50) Date: 12 Dec 2002 09:11:17 -0500 Organization: Yale University Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <5l1y4niayi.fsf@rum.cs.yale.edu> References: <041220020952400758%ajanta@no.spam> <56cfb0e3.0212041458.5eab182a@posting.google.com> <061220020416350201%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> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1039702964 19266 80.91.224.249 (12 Dec 2002 14:22:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:22:44 +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 18MUDz-0004y3-00 for ; Thu, 12 Dec 2002 15:22:03 +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 18MUCW-0007sV-00 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Dec 2002 09:20:32 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!news-hog.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!news.ycc.yale.edu!rum.cs.yale.edu!rum.cs.yale.edu Original-Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.text.tex,gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 23 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: rum.cs.yale.edu User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: rum.cs.yale.edu X-Original-Trace: 12 Dec 2002 09:11:19 -0500, rum.cs.yale.edu Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu comp.sys.mac.apps:348704 gnu.emacs.help:108029 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:4560 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:4560 >> > Why is that comparable with the clutter of tens of MB and 100's of files >> > scattered around? >> Could you expand on your "scattered around" ? > I didn't keep a tally but here is an example. I recently I obtained a > beta distribution (not emacs) which didn't work out (fair enough, > that's a known risk in beta) and I deleted it. Or so I thought. I still > keep running into some files from it. What gives me pause is that these Do you have anything concrete like filenames so we might be able to do something about it or at least explain why things are the way they are ? > As I mentioned in the beginning post of this thread, the distribution > of Emacs 21.3.50 that I got for Mac OSX has *three* executables of All under the single `Emacs.app' directory. Seems clean enough to me. Stefan PS: I'm not quite sure what you want w.r.t the non-english language support. Do you also consider it as clutter ? If so how and why ?