[aur-general] Remove `emacs-ocaml-mode`

Sergei Lebedev superbobry at gmail.com
Tue Oct 11 02:44:08 EDT 2011


So folks, any updates? 

-- Sergei

On Oct 9, 2011, at 12:38 AM, Baptiste wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 09, 2011 at 12:05:18AM +0400, Sergei Lebedev wrote:
>> While `emacs-ocaml-mode` [*] is part of the OCaml distribution it's not
>> included in the `ocaml` package (for reasons unknown) and can only be
>> installed from AUR. So, why remove?
>> 
>> * orphaned package; unsupported for more than a year
>> * can be installed from Marmalade repository via `package.el` [1]
>> * can be installed via `el-get` [2]
>> * everybody's using `tuareg-mode` [3] anyway :)
>> 
>> So, what do you guys think?
> 
> +1 for the last reason, the tuareg-mode is much better (and of course,
> available in the AUR [1])
> 
> Additionally, the 'emacs-ocaml-mode' PKGBUILD has to download the
> whole OCaml sources just to install a single .el file...
> 
> Either include it in the official 'ocaml' package in [extra], either
> don't use it at all. The first solution would not be worth it (since
> nobody would be using it) and it could conflicts with the tuareg-mode.
> 
> So, +1 for deletion. It's out-of-date and orphaned anyway.
> 
> [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=11630
> 
> -- 
> GNU/Linux fan && Archlinux user



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