Hi,
>>"Ian" == Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Ian> I find it very strange that people want to compile these things
Ian> in the postinst. Surely the point of having binary packages is
Ian> so that programs don't have to be compiled on the user's system,
Ian> with all the difficult issues that that creates ?
Ian> Is there something I'm missing here ? Perhaps this has been
Ian> discussed before, in which case I apologise for missing it and
Ian> asking now.
Please look at the emacsen policy for all flavours of Emacs
and add-on packages, which is bundled in with the emacsen-common
package.
This was indeed debated for a while, and decided on in this
list. The solution does have advantages, though it also has the
drawbacks you pointed out.
One may have a more meaningfull discussion after you have read
the document in question.
manoj
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