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From: Benjamin Riefenstahl <b.riefenstahl@turtle-trading.net>
To: 63536@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#63536: Feature Request
Date: Fri, 19 May 2023 15:36:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sfbs5tpx.fsf@turtle-trading.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83bkijxenf.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Wed, 17 May 2023 16:37:24 +0300")

Hi Eli,

Eli Zaretskii writes:
> So you want a command to check whether a newer Emacs is available?
> But where should this command look?  Many (most?) people install
> precompiled binaries prepared by their distros, and I assume those
> distros have their "check for updates" service or something?
>
> We could check on the GNU FTP site, but how many users will want to
> download and build Emacs from sources?
>
> What do other people think about this?

Since you asked for it ;-):

I dislike it when programs annoy me with dialog boxes like that at
startup.  I start a program because I want to do something that uses it,
not to maintain the program.

I use Debian and I like working with its package management.  It is
especially bad when programs tell me they have a new version, but the
package manager doesn't actually have it.

I also do not always want the latest version of any program in the first
place, as long as the current version still does what I want.

Regards, benny





  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-05-19 13:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1553770628.2069339.1684237196253.ref@mail.yahoo.com>
2023-05-16 11:39 ` bug#63536: Feature Request Andrew Goh via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-05-16 15:46   ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]     ` <2050007547.2204916.1684290974957@mail.yahoo.com>
2023-05-17 10:58       ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]         ` <1884442844.2472195.1684329429592@mail.yahoo.com>
2023-05-17 13:37           ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-17 16:53             ` Jim Porter
2023-05-19 13:36             ` Benjamin Riefenstahl [this message]
2023-05-17 14:04   ` Payas Relekar
2023-05-17 17:16     ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-17 15:40   ` Payas Relekar
2023-05-17 15:51   ` Payas Relekar

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