Re: Is the gnus XEmacs package still necessary?

[Vin Shelton <acs@alumni.princeton.edu>]

I believe I need the fsf-compat package to compile the latest gnus
from CVS, but I don't think I need fsf-compat at run-time.  I do not
currently have a gnus package installed.

This is all IIRC.

BTW, why don't you download the gnus package once via FTP, then you
don't have the overhead of repeatedly getting it off the network if
you have to re-install.

  - vin

>>>>> On 17 Jul 2000, Lloyd Zusman <ljz@asfast.com> said:

Lloyd> "Daniel Pittman" <daniel@danann.net> writes:
>> On 17 Jul 2000, Lloyd Zusman <ljz@asfast.com> wrote:
>> 
>> [...]
>> 
>> > Is it still true that I need to have the XEmacs gnus package
>> > (currently it's called "gnus-1.45") installed in order for the CVS
>> > gnus to work?  Or have more recent CVS releases removed the
>> > dependencies to anything that might be part of the XEmacs gnus
>> > package?
>> 
>> For what it's worth, the latest package for XEmacs is actually the
>> (close to) latest release of Gnus. You wouldn't actually need to use the
>> CVS version any longer... :)

Lloyd> Thanks ... that's good to know.

Lloyd> Still, however, I prefer the CVS version.  Can I uninstall gnus-1.45
Lloyd> and still have the CVS version compile?  [I'd normally use the empirical
Lloyd> method and just try it, but it takes so long with my slow internet
Lloyd> connection to re-install XEmacs packages, that I'm trying to get
Lloyd> at least a somewhat warm-and-fuzzy feeling about uninstalling
Lloyd> gnus-1.45 before I actually do so.]

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