Re: missing src/ directory for eval.c (Was: 1L?)

[Emanuel Berg]

Van L wrote:

>> From the maintainer’s point of view, they
>> are unnecessary for the majority of
>> the users.
>
> True.
>
> Some package names are suffixed -nox for
> no X.
>
> I don’t know if it is elite or dumbing down
> to put a tool tip kind of thing or brief text
> overlay to say how to get the missing
> documentation or missing source code.

The tool tip already exits:

    $ aptitude show emacs-nox

    [...]
    Description: GNU Emacs editor (metapackage,
    without X support) GNU Emacs is the
    extensible self-documenting text editor.
    This is a metapackage that will always
    depend on the latest recommended Emacs
    release, without support for X.

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