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Bug 10274

Summary: new category for XEmacs in portage tree
Product: Portage Development Reporter: Rendhalver (RETIRED) <rendhalver>
Component: CoreAssignee: Matthew Kennedy (RETIRED) <mkennedy>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal    
Priority: High    
Version: 2.0   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Linux   
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Runtime testing required: ---

Description Rendhalver (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2002-11-05 10:13:20 UTC
Hi i am part of the XEmacs package management team and i noticed that there isnt 
an app-xemacs category in the portage tree.

i just started using gentoo and i would like to help out with the XEmacs releted
ebuilds, and being the release guy for packages updating the ebuilds would just
become part of my current release process.

any one have a problem with this ??
Comment 1 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2002-11-06 02:28:08 UTC
we do have an app-emacs category. Matthew Kennedy is in charge of that.  I'd
like you, if you could please, to be in touch with him,  reassigning
Comment 2 Rendhalver (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2002-11-06 09:51:20 UTC
XEmacs does its packages very differently to emacs, it has a package management
system for a start, so a new category would be preferable to putting them in
app-emacs.

Mathew do you have a problem with this?

there are currently 112 official XEmacs packages that get built by me
the ebuilds would basically install those packages in the appropriate place for
XEmacs to use them

and as the builder of these packages i would keep them up to date
i did noticed the base packages that get installed with XEmacs are a bit out of
date so i would like to update those as well.
Comment 3 Matthew Kennedy (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2002-11-19 23:56:54 UTC
i'll close this since we're working on it