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

Stefan Husmann stefan-husmann at t-online.de
Tue Oct 11 03:45:22 EDT 2011


Am 11.10.2011 08:44, schrieb Sergei Lebedev:
> 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 It's out-of-date and orphaned anyway.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
>
>
removed, thanks for the heads up


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