Re: [Laurent.Bonnaud@inpg.fr: Bug#192131: ocaml: postinst fails with xemacs]
On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 09:02:34PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 08:57:05PM +0200, Ralf Treinen wrote:
> > On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 02:26:18PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> > > On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 01:44:42PM +0200, Jérôme Marant wrote:
> >
> > > > BTW, I'd advice that you provide the emacs mode separately, in
> > > > a package called "ocaml-mode".
> > >
> > > Ok, i can do that, but i don't really like it a lot. It is part of the
> > > ocaml source package, and any trouble i would have with the emacs mode
> > > would mean a new upload to ocaml also.
> >
> > Splitting off a new binary package (with architecture=all) is
> > easy. The emacs files of the ocaml package currently take
> > 164 kB for the el (emacs-lisp sourec) files, plus 100 - 124 kB
> > per flavour. Hence, if you have three flavours of emacs installed
>
> Err, the 100-124 per flavor are the ones that get compiled at install
> time, aren't they.
That's correct. It doesn't concern package size, but it is still a
waste of space on the users machine if he doesn't want this emacs
mode.
> > (like me) then this sums up to 0.5MB. Seems worth to split it off,
> > in particular since, as Jérôme said, tuareg-mode is much more
> > popular. In fact I know of noone who uses the original ocaml
> > emacs mode.
>
> Ok, altough i guess there is a reason for it being shipped with ocaml
> and not tuareg.
Maybe. You may ask the ocaml people.
> What about maintaining it separatedly then ? in his own source package i
> split of from the ocaml source ?
You still would have to split the source package. If it really bugs you
then I would rather suggest to drop it alltogether, and only have
tuareg-mode packaged. If you are still on the ocaml mailing list (I'm not)
then you might ask there if someone is using the original ocaml
emacs mode.
- Ralf.
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