Subject: A couple of package spec glitches

From: Randy Gobbel <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 00:55:45 -0700

I tried to install xemacs 19.14, and dselect complains that it conflicts with
FSF emacs.  This is simply not true.  The two emacsen keep their support files
in different places--as a matter of fact, I have xemacs 19.14 installed, and
both it and FSF emacs work fine.  This is a bug in the package spec for xemacs
19.14.

Also, I have netnews support software installed, and use Gnus with FSF emacs
to read news.  But: every time I go into dselect, it tries to install nn.  FSF
emacs should "provide" newsreader (or whatever it's called), so dselect will
stop hassling me.

-Randy
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From: Ed Donovan <[email-masked]>
Date: 12 Sep 1996 11:15:05 -0400

> both it and FSF emacs work fine.  This is a bug in the package spec for xemacs

I don't have the file around anymore, but in the last debian-changes
announcement for xemacs, the maintainter noted that he had a problem
with the installation of info files that both emacs and xemacs provide.
He couldn't get xemacs to not overwrite the emacs-provided ones, and so
had to list the packages as conflicting for now, though he was very
unhappy about that.  I haven't downloaded the xemacs package, so I don't
know if this is mentioned anywhere within.

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Ed Donovan				[email-masked]

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From: Bret Badgett <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 21:43:59 -0600

> know if this is mentioned anywhere within.

I've installed the /source xemacs-19.14 recently under debian with
only one snag on network database support.  The only common area
shared between FSF emacs and xemacs (under default config) lies in
user specific lisp directories. The problem is that FSF has changed
(from time to time) it's byte-compiled format, and that there are
other uniquenesses in each elisp/emacs.  Xemacs does come with a very
nice sample.emacs, which gives good hints on how to split these shared
resources within the same structure.

For FSF emacs 19.28-34.

As someone who as been dragging people into Emacs since the dark ages
I highly recommend Xemacs for the unwashed.

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