Ian Malone <ibmal...@gmail.com> writes:

> There is no-one on the planet who thinks emacs is minimalistic

I`m not so sure about that.  There are even ppl who have never heard
about emacs, and if they`d see it, they might very well think it is.

> With this and all your other examples you are talking about individual
> pieces of software. But what I mean is you've said you want specific
> things on the system that are not what other people would want and
> things they want are not what you want. On the Venn diagram of what's
> included in an install that makes life difficult.

Each user has preferences.  It is not too difficult to give them
choices.  What I want to have installed is different from what someone
else wants to have installed --- but we don`t get to pick before the
installation is already done.

>> wasn`t anything better.  There still isn`t --- and the LaTeX sources
>> from back then can still be worked with and printed with no problem.  I
>> still have them.
>
> Provided they only use packages that are compatible with the TeX
> distro you've got available.

Even if they don`t, I can still edit them and make adjustments if
necessary.  If anything fails, I can print the sources as they are.  Had
I used some WYSIWYG word processing software instead, I wouldn`t even be
able to read them anymore because this word processing software doesn`t
exist anymore since a long time.

>> I don`t know what would be better than packages.  I wish there were more
>> packages and am only saying it`s too difficult to make them.  Perhaps
>> there`s good reason for it, perhaps it can be made easier.  Someone who
>> knows how to make them might be able to tell.
>>
>
> Ultimately writing a basic spec file is pretty simple, if you can do
> the configure-make-install cycle it should be straightforward enough.

Is there some documentation about how one would make a package that can
be integrated into Fedora?

How would I find out what the package would have to depend on?


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