On 7/11/07, John Summerfield <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Karl Misselt wrote:
> > Hi - Does anyone know why TUV dropped xemacs from 5?  I think there
> > was some unrest in xemacs circles about FC-6 including a 'beta' xemacs
> > in the release.  Is TUV not including xemacs because of it's status as a
> > 'beta'
> > in FC6?   As Fedora 7 does supply xemacs, it's a bit weird how release 5
> > doesn't.  I was able to rebuild xemacs from the FC6 SRPM (as well as from
> > CentOS), but still have annoying little font warnings that I haven't had
> > the
> > time the track down.  Not a real big deal, but as xemacs is my IDE :), it's
> > a bit frustrating to have to spend time futzing around with it.
> > -Karl
> >
>
>
> When a package you want is missing, a good place to look is in the
> CentOS repositories. Like SL, it's built from RHEL sources, and it has
> some extra packages in supplementary "demanded" by users.
>
> And then there's the EPEL (I think, but I don't recall what it stands
> for - maybe it's FPEL) folk who're building Fedora packages for EL.
>
>


To answer the first question... there isnt a large enough demand for
emacs/xemacs these days to justify maintaining 2 different editors
that are basically the same. At one point in the beta cycle it looked
like both were going to be dropped.

To answer the above answer.. currently neither Fedora EPEL or CentOS
Extras have made RPMS for xemacs. Again it comes from not anyone
stepping up to say they will long-term maintain it.

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