Re: tramp depends on gnus

[Michael Albinus]

Han Boetes <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi,

Hi,

> Since I don't use gnus I removed the gnus dir and I noticed that
> tramp depends on format-spec, which is provided by gnus.

Tramp doesn't depend on Gnus. It has an own contrib subdirectory,
where it carries files used from other packages, like format-spec from
Gnus.

During configuration, Tramp checks whether those files are available
in the load-path. In case they aren't (and only in this case), it
creates links to the version of the corresponding file in the contrib
directory.

Conclusion: A simple

    ./configure --with-contrib
    make
    make install

in the source directory of Tramp should fix your problem. If Tramp
comes as a package of a Linux distribution, there should be a
reconfiguration command for the Tramp package offering the same
functionality.

> And since people like to create packages and choose only the
> packages they want to use, wouldn't it be a nice idea to split out
> common functions so as to create a more modular structure?

That idea I do support.

> I think a lot of people will complain about this dependency.
>
> What do you think?
>
> # Han

Best regards, Michael.