Re: emacs-filesystem

2016-01-05 Thread Jan Synacek
It previously was the case that packages that also shipped support > files for emacs were required to ship the emacs bits in a sub-package. > However, the result was that very few packagers actually complied, and > indeed some just shipped the emacs bits as %docs. > > The move to u

Re: emacs-filesystem

2016-01-05 Thread Jonathan Underwood
On 4 January 2016 at 14:35, Jan Synacek wrote: > Hello, > > long time ago, there was a request to create the emacs-filesystem > package [1], so other packages could drop their emacs-specific files > there. I believe it was done the other way around... Those files are > useles

Re: emacs-filesystem

2016-01-05 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Tue, 05 Jan 2016 11:17:15 +0100, Jan Synacek wrote: > > 2) A dependency on emacs-filesystem is primarily for packages, which store > > files in those directories, but which do _not_ need Emacs to be installed. > > Splitting off emacs- subpackages is not always the mo

Re: emacs-filesystem

2016-01-05 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 05.01.2016 um 11:17 schrieb Jan Synacek: Michael Schwendt writes: 2) A dependency on emacs-filesystem is primarily for packages, which store files in those directories, but which do _not_ need Emacs to be installed. Splitting off emacs- subpackages is not always the most wise/convenient

Re: emacs-filesystem

2016-01-05 Thread Jan Synacek
Michael Schwendt writes: > On Mon, 04 Jan 2016 15:35:51 +0100, Jan Synacek wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> long time ago, there was a request to create the emacs-filesystem >> package [1], so other packages could drop their emacs-specific files >> there. I beli

Re: emacs-filesystem

2016-01-04 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Mon, 04 Jan 2016 15:35:51 +0100, Jan Synacek wrote: > Hello, > > long time ago, there was a request to create the emacs-filesystem > package [1], so other packages could drop their emacs-specific files > there. I believe it was done the other way around... Those files are &g

emacs-filesystem

2016-01-04 Thread Jan Synacek
Hello, long time ago, there was a request to create the emacs-filesystem package [1], so other packages could drop their emacs-specific files there. I believe it was done the other way around... Those files are useless without emacs to begin with. I think packages that have emacs snippets / modes