Re: grep-changelog in the emacs distro

[Michael Albinus]

Ulrich Mueller <address@hidden> writes:

> So, if you take the road of removing grep-changelog if there's no
> Perl, then you should also remove other parts of Emacs if other
> programs are absent. For example, you'd have to remove tramp if
> there's no ftp, ssh, or sudo.

I basically agree with your message about dependencies, but in the Tramp
case it isn't precise. There are several alternative access methods for
Tramp, if the quoted ones are not available.

(progn
  (require 'tramp)
  (message "%s" (mapcar 'car tramp-methods)))

Just my 2c :-)

> Ulrich

Best regards, Michael.