From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
To: 48023@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#48023: download.html has better instructions for non-free systems
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2021 20:49:11 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADwFkmkSgRZw+zfbvFhwLxLinjpNbBV_ndUDbz2deRuKPSoZHQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
Severity: wishlist
On this page:
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/download.html
We have better instructions for non-free systems than for free ones.
They include the exact commands you would need to run to install Emacs.
I suggest we add instructions for free operating systems as well.
I don't think this would mean a lot of work, as the commands rarely
change. We could decide to only include instructions for the top 5 most
popular distributions, scientifically decided by searching online for
"most popular gnu linux distributions" or something:
- Debian/Ubuntu
- Fedora/RedHat
- Arch Linux
- OpenSUSE
- GNU Guix
And we could document in a comment to that file that our policy is to
be very restrictive with adding more (to avoid zealous fan of random
small distribution <foo> to ask it to be added).
Note that just the first entry in that list would probably already cover
a significant proportion of our GNU/Linux users.
next reply other threads:[~2021-04-26 1:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-26 1:49 Stefan Kangas [this message]
2021-04-26 4:42 ` bug#48023: download.html has better instructions for non-free systems Richard Stallman
2021-04-26 19:01 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-04-26 22:30 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-04-27 3:50 ` Richard Stallman
2021-04-27 13:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-04-27 13:51 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-04-28 3:39 ` Richard Stallman
2021-04-28 10:08 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-04-28 10:41 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-04-28 13:14 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-04-28 3:36 ` Richard Stallman
2021-04-26 11:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-04-26 20:10 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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