From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ulrich =?UTF-8?Q?M=C3=BCller?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#15297: 24.3.50; Compression of installed .el files should be configurable Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2013 11:50:30 +0200 Message-ID: <21034.63206.187255.659095@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> References: <21034.52823.580662.797952@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <83mwnpkrfd.fsf@gnu.org> <21034.58735.377243.154796@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <83hadxkobn.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1378547479 20812 80.91.229.3 (7 Sep 2013 09:51:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2013 09:51:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 15297@debbugs.gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 07 11:51:20 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VIFAm-0002Dm-GP for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 Sep 2013 11:51:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41328 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VIFAm-0008BX-5q for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 Sep 2013 05:51:20 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41234) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VIFAc-0008BB-5A for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Sep 2013 05:51:17 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VIFAU-0006m9-SB for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Sep 2013 05:51:10 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:37916) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VIFAU-0006m5-Oq for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Sep 2013 05:51:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1VIFAU-0004ql-Cd for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Sep 2013 05:51:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Ulrich =?UTF-8?Q?M=C3=BCller?= Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sat, 07 Sep 2013 09:51:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 15297 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: patch Original-Received: via spool by 15297-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B15297.137854744318616 (code B ref 15297); Sat, 07 Sep 2013 09:51:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 15297) by debbugs.gnu.org; 7 Sep 2013 09:50:43 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46209 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1VIFAA-0004qB-9t for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 07 Sep 2013 05:50:42 -0400 Original-Received: from a1www.kph.uni-mainz.de ([134.93.134.1]:33269) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1VIFA7-0004px-JC for 15297@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 07 Sep 2013 05:50:41 -0400 Original-Received: from a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de [134.93.134.92]) by a1www.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.7/8.13.4) with ESMTP id r879oWkC026358; Sat, 7 Sep 2013 11:50:32 +0200 Original-Received: from a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.6/8.14.2) with ESMTP id r879oUB3027499; Sat, 7 Sep 2013 11:50:30 +0200 Original-Received: (from ulm@localhost) by a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.6/8.14.6/Submit) id r879oUrA027495; Sat, 7 Sep 2013 11:50:30 +0200 In-Reply-To: <83hadxkobn.fsf@gnu.org> X-Mailer: VM 8.2.0b under 24.3.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:78101 Archived-At: >>>>> On Sat, 07 Sep 2013, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > 2) Not introducing yet another obscure option to configure, which > already has too many of them. Too many? Emacs is a complex program, so of course it has a number of configure options. They all come with a default, so the user only must specify them if he wants something that differs from it. Isn't it one of the principles of GNU that "a user who needs changes in the system will always be free to make them himself"? > Perhaps you never produced more than one installation from the same > source tree. I do it all the time: sometimes I install on the same > machine, sometimes for copying the installation to another. The > end-user system frequently needs different options, because the > needs of the end users are different. Really, there's no need to tell a distro maintainer about different needs of users. ;-)