Re: [Rule-list] emacs

[Michael Fratoni]

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On Saturday 20 April 2002 07:27 pm, Martin Stricker wrote:

> OTOH if you have emacs you don't need anything else (except the kernel,
> but they are working on it ;=D), so just leave these other
> mail/ftp/www/news clients out of RULE... ;-))

 Agreed. :) They are damn close, too.

> Of course this is all a matter of taste. I just want to point out that
> leaving emacs complete might not be bad at all. The emacs clients are
> quite good - if you like the way emacs works, of course... ;-))

I agree. If the user chooses to install the package, they may want all 
the options.

> Idea to make the choices easier: If emacs is chosen to be installed,
> the installer should ask the user if (s)he wants to leave emacs
> complete or what to delete. I prefer having the choice instead of
> having to find out there's something missing I expected to be there and
> not knowing how to get it back! Oh, and what will happen with this
> crippled-down emacs if I try to uninstall or upgrade it?

It shouldn't affect an upgrade. rpm -V emacs will spew a lot of warnings 
though.

> This just brought up another thought: Can we get (not now, but on the
> long term) have something like kickstart for slinky to automate
> installs?

Yes, we can probably offer this option at some point.

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