[csw-maintainers] Fwd: [csw-devel] SF.net SVN: gar:[10832] csw/mgar/pkg/gettext/trunk/Makefile

[Philip Brown]

On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 7:19 AM, Dagobert Michelsen <dam at opencsw.org> wrote:
> Hi Ben,
>
> I don't think factoring out .el-packages is a good thing. Having .el files around
> without emacs doesn't have any negative effects, the files are very small in space and
> the extra package makes it difficult to pick up all .els for the installed packages.
> I would suggest just overwriting the checkpkg warning in this specific case. I would
> even go so far as to ask Maciej to disable this warning as in most cases splitting
> of the .el is not what you want.
>
> Toughts?
>

I think this is somewhat similar to including texinfo files, without
actually depending on texinfo.
ie: reasonable to do.
So, I personally agree, that for simplicity's sake, just disabling
warning(globally) is the most maintainer-friendly thing to do.