From: Emanuel Berg <moasenwood@zoho.eu>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: missing src/ directory for eval.c (Was: 1L?)
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2019 01:04:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86wom5x460.fsf@zoho.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 021FF478-35A6-4AC4-B66D-E7376BA24DD2@scratch.space
Van L wrote:
>> From the maintainer’s point of view, they
>> are unnecessary for the majority of
>> the users.
>
> True.
>
> Some package names are suffixed -nox for
> no X.
>
> I don’t know if it is elite or dumbing down
> to put a tool tip kind of thing or brief text
> overlay to say how to get the missing
> documentation or missing source code.
The tool tip already exits:
$ aptitude show emacs-nox
[...]
Description: GNU Emacs editor (metapackage,
without X support) GNU Emacs is the
extensible self-documenting text editor.
This is a metapackage that will always
depend on the latest recommended Emacs
release, without support for X.
--
underground experts united
http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-02-12 0:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-02-11 11:35 missing src/ directory for eval.c (Was: 1L?) Van Ly
2019-02-11 13:03 ` tomas
2019-02-11 13:56 ` Noam Postavsky
2019-02-11 14:13 ` missing src/ directory for eval.c Stefan Monnier
2019-02-11 15:16 ` Michael Albinus
2019-02-11 16:44 ` tomas
2019-02-11 20:51 ` Robert Thorpe
2019-02-11 20:54 ` Emanuel Berg
2019-02-11 22:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-02-12 0:01 ` Emanuel Berg
2019-02-12 4:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-02-12 5:16 ` Emanuel Berg
2019-02-11 14:17 ` missing src/ directory for eval.c (Was: 1L?) Yuri Khan
2019-02-11 20:45 ` Emanuel Berg
2019-02-11 22:01 ` Van L
2019-02-12 0:04 ` Emanuel Berg [this message]
2019-02-12 12:21 ` missing src/ directory for eval.c Van L
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