Re: Replace 'pp' with 'prin1' to generate ELPA archive-contents

[Stefan Monnier]

Po Lu [2022-10-27 08:49:03] wrote:
> Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>> zlib is ON by default, is required internally by gnutls which is also ON
>> by default, and is a requirement for the native compiler as well (which
>> is not ON by default), so it's not *that* drastic.
> Neither of those three features are supported on MS-DOS, along with
> networking in general,

Good: it means that the use of zlib would have no effect on MS-DOS.

> so I doubt the package system works there in the first place.

I expect that `list-packages` doesn't work, nor does `package-install`,
but you should still be able to use `package-install-(file|from-buffer)`.


        Stefan