Re: Debian's idiosyncratic complexification of Emacs

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Manoj Srivastava writes:

 > > IOW, you've specified the problem incorrectly, at least if you want to
 > > serve the traditionalists satisfactorily.
 > 
 >         Pardon me, I do think I know the problem that Debian was trying
 >  to solve when they implemented this mechanism.

My apologies.  I do know who you (Manoj) are, and was addressing you
as a representative of the designers of the DEP.  I'm saying that to
serve this particular set of users, the designers omitted an important
requirement.

 >         Sure. I am just puzzled as to why I am not experiencing _any_ of
 >  these issues. If I could reproduce some of the issues, perhaps I can do
 >  my bit to solve the problem for other folks too.

Well, since nobody has actually been able to describe a problem, how
would you know?  I bet you *have* experienced them, and fixed them.
David and I are just more devious at finding ways to go wrong!

Anyway, after I clean up some other stuff and get moved back to Japan,
I have an XEmacs/distro integration project I'll be working on.  That
will be a good time for me to revisit this thread.