Subject: Re: gimp depends on emacs?
To: Matthias Scheler <tron@lyssa.owl.de>
From: Jim Wise <jwise@draga.com>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 05/03/1999 18:59:40
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On 3 May 1999, Matthias Scheler wrote:

>In article <199905032218.HAA06595@dingo.ping.net.au>,
>	Berndt Josef Wulf <wulf@ping.net.au> writes:
>> Why not leave them out if they are redundant?
>
>These files are *not* redundant. Only the copies in "pkgsrc" would be.

Having the files in pkgsrc is not redundant because it saves the user
having to wait for emacs to download, [build, ]and install to generate
files whose contents are known in advance.  Nor would this be the only
place in NetBSD where we keep auto-generated files in-tree, even though
we have the tools to regenerate them at any time -- tables of syscalls
spring immediately to mind.

- -- 
				Jim Wise
				jwise@draga.com

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