Re: [Erc-help] Re: ERC could take advantage of .authinfo/.netrc

[<tc...@fr...>]

Adrian Aichner <ad...@xe...> writes:

> tc...@fr... (Tobias C. Rittweiler) writes:
>
> > Adrian Aichner <ad...@xe...> writes:
> >
> > > Making erc depend on gnus would be a pretty bad idea, IMO.
> > >
> > > Not that XEmacs packages don't have interdependencies, but this
> > > one seems like a bit of a strech.
> >
> > Of course. But be aware that I haven't spoken about a eat-or-die
> > dependency. (In fact, I understand `netrc.el' as being there for
> > deploying it with your own code base for the case that Gnus ain't
> > installed.)
>
> Ah, and netrc.el is in the mail-lib XEmacs package, not in gnus.  I
> just checked.

As well as in in GNU Emacs (22.0.50 at least); there it's in
net/netrc.el. Does that relativise your complain? :-)


--tcr.