From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Runtime package dependencies and compilation order Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2016 17:32:21 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <86twhc9b7e.fsf@student.uu.se> References: <87bn3mi8sy.fsf@web.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1464883945 25357 80.91.229.3 (2 Jun 2016 16:12:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2016 16:12:25 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 02 18:12:25 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-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 1b8VEP-0001QI-1I for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Jun 2016 18:12:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48304 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b8VEN-0006iA-VX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Jun 2016 12:12:24 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed8.news.xs4all.nl!feeder.erje.net!1.eu.feeder.erje.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 29 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: EoOtCC1fCYcttx6jjhWUlA.user.gioia.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:DBkgOgimqOZLNPF+KYet1Z1ludg= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:217944 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:110245 Archived-At: Boris writes: >> Is this an exclusive "or"? If not, why not >> just depend on B _and_ C? > > It's not exclusive, it's disjunction. I don't > want to depend on both of them because they > are huge. And some people would not like > having orphan package to be installed > as dependency. C'mon, how big can they be? Also, if you put a switch into A to toggle between B and C mode, it doesn't count as an "orphan package" just because it isn't selected by default! Even in vanilla Emacs, there are tons of stuff I never use and never will use, and that never bothered me at all. Stuff that are unused are only annoying if it is visible! -- underground experts united .... http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573 Emacs Gnus Blogomatic ......... http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573/blogomatic - so far: 42 Blogomatic articles -