Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/editors/emacs-nox11

[John Marino <netbsd%marino.st@localhost>]

On 12/12/2011 9:16 AM, OBATA Akio wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Dec 2011 15:25:30 +0900, John Marino <marino%netbsd.org@localhost> 
> wrote:
>>
>> All this commit did was to modify a file that was already getting
>> installed
>> by editors/emacs-nox11.  The PLIST was not affected.  Perhaps the commit
>> made no difference without those buildlinks you mentioned....
> 
> It is probably OK to use emacs-nox11 just on console, but your change
> let emacs-nox11 to
> be used with desktop environment.
> 

Hi OBATA,
I'm having a little difficulty understanding your concern actually.  All
this change does is modify a single line of a file that is already
getting installed.  If the emacs.desktop file is used, then it will
launch Emacs in a terminal.  I interpreted from your last reply that
emacs.desktop (possibly) won't be used due to missing dependencies on
desktop-file-utils, etc.


> On desktop environment, desktop-db and hicolor-icon are already
> installed by other
> packages, then installing/deleting emacs-nox11 package will break such
> databases.

Right, but I didn't make any change to either of these areas.

> 
> So, I suggested if you want to use emacs-nox11 package on desktop
> environment,
> let emacs-nox11 to maintain those databases, or prevent it from
> installing such files.
> 

Are you suggesting that emacs-nox11 is wrong to install these files?  I
have no opinion on that.  It seems that "minskim" is listed as the
maintainer, so really it's his opinion on this that matters.

If my change has no effect, then it's probably best to revert it.  On
the other hand, if this change highlights an issue about what's getting
installed then I need to defer to the regular maintainers of these packages.

In any case, I don't think the change broke anything.

John