Re: Default init files in GNU/Linux distributions (was: bug in 22.0.50.1 ?? no rmailgen.el)

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Reiner Steib <address@hidden>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>, address@hidden
> Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 23:12:02 +0200
> 
> On Mon, Aug 28 2006, ken wrote:
> 
> [ ~/.gnu-emacs file ]
> > My best and most dispassionate estimation is that it was put there when
> > the account was created-- it is a standard file in /etc/skel/-- 
> 
> It's probably from SUSE's Emacs package:
> 
> $ rpm -qf /etc/skel/.gnu-emacs
> emacs-21.3-206
> $ cat /etc/SuSE-release 
> SUSE LINUX 10.0 (i586) OSS
> VERSION = 10.0
> 
> SUSE reads ~/.gnu-emacs from ~/.emacs when not running XEmacs.  But as
> we can see, some of the tests in those files are broken or at least
> only suitable when using the Emacs packages from the distribution.
> 
> There's lot of other code in ~/.emacs / .gnu-emacs from SUSE that I
> would not recommend.

In that case, I'd suggest to send a bug report to the SUSE
maintainers.

Thanks.