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Re: Configuration management, version 5



Martin Oldfield wrote:
> I think there are problems with a hierarchy, exemplified by emacs
> which contains both a newsreader and a mail program. I suggest that
> this implies the hierarchy either needs to provide multiple
> inheritance, or is replaced by a simple list of the bits of the space
> which are appropriate. In the case of emacs, this would be something
> like mailreaders, newsreaders, emacsen, and emacs-19.

The proposal is that would use /emacs19/ for stuff local to it, as well as 
/news-reader/ and /mail-reader/ for stuff that.is shared with other news and
mail readers.

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