Re: tool-tip default

[Kai Großjohann]

On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, Dave Love wrote:

> You are using a Debian system with a packaged Emacs, and I claim my
> £5!  Various bets are off.  That stuff isn't installed if you build
> a straight GNU distribution.
> 
> [The worst thing about this is that there's no indication that
> you're getting a more-or-less hacked-up Emacs (GPL notwithstanding)
> and no user doc as far as I know about what's entailed.

I hope I'm not mistaken, but I think that all that Debian does is to
distribute a pre-built site-start.el file.  Does including a
site-start.el file imply that the Emacs distribution is `hacked up'?

Suppose a user installs AUC-TeX or a new Gnus version in addition to
their Emacs, then Debian makes it so that the package is used
automatically, by including the right incantations in the
site-start.el file.  I don't feel that this is a bad thing.

kai
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