From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: missing src/ directory for eval.c (Was: 1L?) Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2019 01:04:55 +0100 Message-ID: <86wom5x460.fsf@zoho.eu> References: <3EAFCC26-4B10-4133-9B5E-C0BE117A5455@me.com> <021FF478-35A6-4AC4-B66D-E7376BA24DD2@scratch.space> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="269295"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 12 01:18:45 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1gtLme-0017wK-SJ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Feb 2019 01:18:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58557 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gtLmd-0008Fl-Ou for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 Feb 2019 19:18:43 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:47168) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gtLZR-0006K3-RJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Feb 2019 19:05:07 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gtLZQ-0006IJ-7J for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Feb 2019 19:05:05 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=57896 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gtLZP-0006Fr-SQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Feb 2019 19:05:04 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1gtLZO-000tKi-78 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Feb 2019 01:05:02 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:x6RXiAJogaizsd8GBvlis1OmtsQ= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 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:119362 Archived-At: 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