GNU bug report logs - #15297
24.3.50; Compression of installed .el files should be configurable

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Ulrich Müller <ulm <at> gentoo.org>

Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2013 07:33:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: patch

Merged with 9789, 13211

Found in versions 24.2.90, 24.3.50

Fixed in version 24.4

Done: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #20 received at 15297 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Ulrich Müller <ulm <at> gentoo.org>
Cc: 15297 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#15297: 24.3.50;
 Compression of installed .el files should be configurable
Date: Sat, 07 Sep 2013 13:04:49 +0300

> Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2013 11:50:30 +0200
> Cc: 15297 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Ulrich Müller <ulm <at> gentoo.org>
> 
> > Perhaps you never produced more than one installation from the same
> > source tree. I do it all the time: sometimes I install on the same
> > machine, sometimes for copying the installation to another. The
> > end-user system frequently needs different options, because the
> > needs of the end users are different.
> 
> Really, there's no need to tell a distro maintainer about different
> needs of users. ;-)

Sorry.  But then I don't understand how come you don't realize the
advantages of a single build tree that can be installed in umpteen
different ways.
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