Subject: Re: emacs category?
To: None <mcmahill@mtl.mit.edu>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 05/25/2001 09:27:43
	Can the emacs and xemacs pckages be modified to include a shared
	'extra lisp fun' directory, and then the extra packages installed
	there?

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On Thu, 24 May 2001 mcmahill@mtl.mit.edu wrote:

>
>
> oh, and my other question is this:  What if i want the package to work
> under both emacs _and_ xemacs at once?  In case i have some users who want
> emacs and some who want xemacs?  Looking at math/calc as an example, I
> see:
>
> .include "../../mk/bsd.prefs.mk"
>
> .if defined(USE_XEMACS)
> MAKE_ENV+=      EMACS=xemacs
> DEPENDS+=       xemacs-[0-9]*:../../editors/xemacs
> SITE_LISP=      lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp
> .else
> MAKE_ENV+=      EMACS=emacs
> DEPENDS+=       emacs-[0-9]*:../../editors/emacs
> SITE_LISP=      share/emacs/site-lisp
> .endif
>
> PLIST_SUBST+=   SITE_LISP=${SITE_LISP}
>
> which basically says, it will only install to either emacs _or_ xemacs but
> not both.
>
> hmmm, more confusion.
>
>
> On Thu, 24 May 2001 mcmahill@mtl.mit.edu wrote:
>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 24 May 2001, Greywolf wrote:
> >
> > > On Thu, 24 May 2001 mcmahill@mtl.mit.edu wrote:
> > >
> > > # Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 16:30:19 -0400 (EDT)
> > > # From: mcmahill@mtl.mit.edu
> > > # To: tech-pkg@netbsd.org
> > > # Subject: emacs category?
> > > #
> > > #
> > > # I was wondering if we should perhaps create an emacs category for various
> > > # emacs packages?  Or would the preference be to try and put them in the
> > > # existing categories?  For example, would a, for example, 'algol-mode'
> > > # package go under "editors" (its for editing), "devel" (you only would use
> > > # it for editing a program), "lang" (to keep it with algol),?
> > >
> > > editors/emacs-extras?
> >
> >
> > so
> >
> > editors/emacs-foo-mode
> > editors/emacs-bar-mode
> > editors/emacs-baz-mode
> >
> > etc?
> >
> > -Dan
> >
> >
>
>