From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Software/HD ecology Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 20:19:25 +0100 Organization: University of Dortmund, Germany Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <84r8cc7b2a.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> References: <041220020952400758%ajanta@no.spam> <5ld6obj8il.fsf@rum.cs.yale.edu><101220021125583826%ajanta@no.spam> <111220021253524057%ajanta@no.spam> <5l65u0i8zj.fsf@rum.cs.yale.edu> <111220022053507599%ajanta@no.spam> <84k7ifo3s2.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> <121220021324043990%ajanta@no.spam> <121220021419243187%anil@null.invalid> <161220021454522181%ajanta@no.spam> <84pts1nfs5.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> <171220021036551390%ajanta@no.spam> <843cowcyxs.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1040412123 11782 80.91.224.249 (20 Dec 2002 19:22:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 19:22:03 +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 18PSie-00033T-00 for ; Fri, 20 Dec 2002 20:22:00 +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 18PShO-000572-08 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Dec 2002 14:20:42 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!pd951fb0b.dip.t-dialin.NET!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.text.tex,gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 18 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: pd951fb0b.dip.t-dialin.net (217.81.251.11) Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1040411966 3328720 217.81.251.11 (16 [73968]) User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.2.93 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Cancel-Lock: sha1:OkhGeJ2c3y+KRQZHkCYWVoUsVS0= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu comp.sys.mac.apps:349398 gnu.emacs.help:108364 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:4893 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:4893 Lee Sau Dan writes: > I consider this a good phenomenon. It is how evolution works: > varieties created by crossing over and mutation; the unsuitable ones > eliminated by natural selection. So, with time, the system would > evolve to an optimum. Well, err. How come I doubt this. Maybe I can't see the wisdom of the outcome of a similar process regarding operating systems and one regarding office software... If Autoconf would make it easy for people to install an uninstaller, then a change to the technically better might happen. But I don't think that the world is going to standardize on a package format anytime soon. -- ~/.signature is: umop ap!sdn (Frank Nobis)