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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




  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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