Re: Suppressing native compilation (short and long term)

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Rob Browning <rlb@defaultvalue.org>
> Cc: yandros@gmail.com, tomas@tuxteam.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 02 Oct 2022 13:41:32 -0500
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > Why do you think so?  A user who installs emacs-gtk and a user who
> > installs emacs-nox will need different *.eln files.
> 
> You can't install more than one of those at a time in Debian.  They're
> mutually exclusive, at least right now, and have been since the variants
> were added.

Even if we are talking about two different users on the same system?
IOW, this is a system-wide restriction?  Isn't that too harsh?

And what about users who make changes to Emacs -- is that a legitimate
use case supported by Debian installations?