Re: etags name collision.

[Ergus]

On Mon, Apr 11, 2022 at 05:09:53PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2022 15:47:49 +0200
> > From: Ergus <spacibba@aol.com>
> > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> >
> > >Emacs doesn't need ctags
> >
> > So we shouldn't provide ctags by default.
>
> I'm opposed to dropping stuff just because we can.  If you want to add
> an option not to install ctags if another version is installed
> (similarly to what we do with movemail), that's fine.

That may be an acceptable solution... But I will need to learn autotools
to implement that myself...

> But please
> don't argue for dropping parts of Emacs unconditionally because you
> personally find it not useful, that argument will never fly with me.

I know Eli; But at some point you find that situations like this create
more confusion than benefit to the users and require some developer
support (man power) we lack of. I usually have the same feeling in the
opposite direction; when adding features that are not popular enough to
be maintained in the long therm... but that's another discussion.