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Bug#686856: gnus gets uninstalled if I remove xemacs21, even though I have emacs

September 06th, 2012 - 02:00 pm ET by Mark Galassi | Report spam
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Package: gnus
Version: 5.11+v0.10.d

I use gnus with emacs, and for some reason when I installed gnus it also
pulled in xemacs21.

If I try to remove xemacs21 it removes gnus.

This might be as simple as "they are separate gnus packages, emacs has
its own gnus", but that would be confusing: I am nervous about removing
xemacs21 in case it messes up gnus. In this case a package rename of
gnus to gnus-for-xemacs (or something like that) would make sense.

Or it might be that gnus depends on xemacs21 specifically when instead
it should just require some kind of emacs.


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#1 Tommi Vainikainen
September 07th, 2012 - 02:00 am ET | Report spam
Mark Galassi writes:
I use gnus with emacs, and for some reason when I installed gnus it also
pulled in xemacs21. If I try to remove xemacs21 it removes gnus.



Hi,

current gnus package description already explains this:

Note: This package contains beta version from No Gnus series. Users
of GNU Emacs 23 are better served by Gnus 5.13 included in GNU Emacs
23 packages.

So, if you're using a recent GNU emacs, it already contains a more recent
version of Gnus.

Tommi Vainikainen


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