Sten Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Imagine the initial dselect session. A zillion packages with elisp > files are being installed simultaneously with one or two emacsen...
No, you'd want to do it like the menu package. If I understand correctly, menu forks off into the background waiting until the entire dselect session if finished, accumulating requests, and then runs them all at once in a single pass. > May I suggest a middleway: You write your compilation program as you > intended, but instead of calling the program from the postinst > scripts, it is left in /usr/sbin for the user to run manually. The > postint (and the user manual) could write a warning telling the user > to run the script. This way it only has to run once when multiple > packages are installed. I'd really like to avoid more messages during the install process if possible. Most likely, people will miss it unless I put a pause (which is even worse than the message), and then they'll just be annoyed that Debian's emacs is *really* slow. > (Maybe the program should also include an option for cleaning .elc's > if an emacsen is uninstalled?) Oh, I'm planning for that to be automatic. The emacs maintainer will just have to have an appropriate call in the postrm. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP fingerprint = E8 0E 0D 04 F5 21 A0 94 53 2B 97 F5 D6 4E 39 30 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
