From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: new image library "requirements" Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 06:41:07 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87wsy3qw87.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <46761FA4.8090403@swipnet.se> <18038.8602.106679.989184@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <86vedl1zrw.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1182249700 9224 80.91.229.12 (19 Jun 2007 10:41:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 10:41:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: nickrob@snap.net.nz, jan.h.d@swipnet.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org, miles@gnu.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 19 12:41:38 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1I0b9V-0005uD-Ch for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 12:41:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I0b9U-0008ES-Oq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 06:41:36 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I0b92-000848-VJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 06:41:09 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I0b92-00083n-Hh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 06:41:08 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I0b92-00083i-Bq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 06:41:08 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1I0b92-0007DG-1j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 06:41:08 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1I0b91-0004Nu-BI; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 06:41:07 -0400 In-reply-to: <86vedl1zrw.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> (message from David Kastrup on Mon, 18 Jun 2007 09:34:59 +0200) X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:73291 Archived-At: > Yes, where does it all end? Emacs will build without alsa headers but > presumably that leads to some loss of functionality (playing midi files, > maybe?). Should configure throw an error when these aren't found? The answer to that question isn't a theoretical one. It is a matter of how important a given feature is as a feature of Emacs. For instance, for sound: how important a problem is it that people build Emacs and don't get sound, just because they didn't have the right headers installed? On the other side, how big an inconvenience is it to be pressured into installing the headers, when you didn't want sound anyway?