Subject: Re: gimp depends on emacs?
To: Matthias Scheler <tron@lyssa.owl.de>
From: Jim Wise <jwise@draga.com>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 05/04/1999 00:18:18
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On 3 May 1999, Matthias Scheler wrote:

>Supplying a replacement tool to generate these files would do the same
>without adding any redundant files. I was never NetBSD's method to go
>for the quick and dirty hack.

So including the files is redundant, but writing a tool to auto-generate
files whose contents are known in advance is not?  Defend that.

>So all you emacs haters stop complaining and start working.

What does loving or hating emacs have to do with whether I want a
package to have to depend on a much larger package to generate files
whose contents are known in advance?

- -- 
				Jim Wise
				jwise@draga.com

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