On Monday 24 January 2011 08:10:20 Xavier Maillard wrote:
> 
> Why not just try to detect whether bash/zsh or even emacs is available
> on the system and install the dependent files when it is the case ?

Hi Xavier,

I think it is better to let user explicitly choose what he want to install
or not. 
For the story, I am a gentoo user, in gentoo you can choose what
you want to install from a package with the USE flag mechanism.
(for example a ncurse client will depend of notmuch but without emacs support, 
another user will install the same notmuch package but with emacs support).
 
So the with/without options make the packaging very easy.

I think we can do autodetection if needed, but the user should be able to 
override the automatic behavior.


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Cédric