F12: weird dependenciy between xpaint and emacs

Michael Schwendt mschwendt at gmail.com
Fri Jan 29 12:42:50 UTC 2010


On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 13:39:01 +0100, Joachim wrote:

> >
> > Open a new Canvas, then choose:
> > Options ->  C Script Editor
> >
> >  From the resulting editor window, choose File ->  External
> >
> > That should load emacs in a terminal window...
> 
> Hi Sam,
> 
> sorry, no emacs is loaded, only a paned window titled "XPaint/C scripts" 
> is appearing. And this happens both with and without an installed emacs. 
> The windows are indentical (with and without emacs).

The package dependencies are broken anyway.

xpaint also requires xpaint-devel which it should not do, because -devel
packages ought to stay fully optional. Further, there is no point in
splitting of an xpaint-devel package and put it back with a strict
dependency.


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