emacs-filesystem

[Jan Synacek]

Hello,

long time ago, there was a request to create the emacs-filesystem
package [1], so other packages could drop their emacs-specific files
there. I believe it was done the other way around... Those files are
useless without emacs to begin with. I think packages that have emacs
snippets / modes should have a "-emacs" subpackage (or something like
that) that depends on emacs itself.

The following packages now depend on emacs-filesystem (I have omitted
i686 variants for brevity):

a2ps-0:4.14-28.fc23.x86_64
anthy-0:9100h-28.fc23.x86_64
asymptote-0:2.35-3.fc23.x86_64
autoconf-0:2.69-21.fc23.noarch
bigloo-0:4.1a-9.2.fc23.x86_64
clisp-0:2.49-18.20130208hg.fc23.x86_64
cmake-0:3.3.2-1.fc23.x86_64
crm114-0:0-10.20100106.fc23.x86_64
cscope-0:15.8-12.fc23.x86_64
desktop-file-utils-0:0.22-5.fc23.x86_64
emacs-common-1:24.5-6.fc23.x86_64
emacs-pysmell-0:0.7.3-4.fc23.noarch
ftnchek-0:3.3.1-21.fc23.x86_64
gambit-c-0:4.7.9-1.fc23.x86_64
git-0:2.5.0-4.fc23.x86_64
global-0:6.5.1-1.fc23.x86_64
jflex-0:1.6.1-2.fc23.noarch
libidn-0:1.32-1.fc23.x86_64
librep-0:0.92.5-1.fc23.x86_64
mercurial-0:3.5.1-1.fc23.x86_64
mozc-0:2.17.2077.102-5.fc23.x86_64
ninja-build-0:1.6.0-1.fc23.x86_64
nodejs-tern-0:0.7.0-6.fc23.noarch
perl-SystemPerl-0:1.344-2.fc23.x86_64
pypy-libs-0:4.0.0-3.fc23.x86_64
pypy3-libs-0:2.4.0-2.fc23.x86_64
ratpoison-0:1.4.8-2.fc23.x86_64
reposurgeon-0:3.29-1.fc23.noarch
root-0:5.34.32-5.fc23.x86_64
rpmdevtools-0:8.6-2.fc23.noarch
tpp-0:1.3.1-19.fc23.noarch
uim-0:1.8.6-8.fc23.x86_64
why-0:2.35-9.fc23.x86_64
yast2-devtools-0:3.1.36-2.fc23.noarch

I think it would be better that these packages had their emacs
subpackages, instead of the other way around. Not only would that make
more sense, but itw would also resolve the WTF moments when installing
unrelated packages that suddenly require emacs-filesystem to be
installed as a dependency.

Any comments? Maybe there are still people that were involved with the
change?

[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=661866

Cheers,
-- 
Jan Synacek
Software Engineer, Red Hat