From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stephen Leake Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Version naming Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2014 16:20:29 -0500 Message-ID: <85wq7xcbxe.fsf@stephe-leake.org> References: <8738ap3qgq.fsf@trouble.defaultvalue.org> <20141016095111.631bf393@anarchist.wooz.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1413667269 3255 80.91.229.3 (18 Oct 2014 21:21:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2014 21:21:09 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 18 23:21:02 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XfbQs-0007sm-Jt for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Oct 2014 23:21:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37801 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XfbQs-0000Uc-3t for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Oct 2014 17:21:02 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54858) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XfbQW-0000Tx-6T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Oct 2014 17:20:48 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XfbQQ-0000yZ-6w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Oct 2014 17:20:40 -0400 Original-Received: from dnvrco-outbound-snat.email.rr.com ([107.14.73.228]:52235 helo=dnvrco-oedge-vip.email.rr.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XfbQP-0000yU-NM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Oct 2014 17:20:33 -0400 Original-Received: from [70.94.38.149] ([70.94.38.149:50357] helo=TAKVER) by dnvrco-oedge01 (envelope-from ) (ecelerity 3.5.0.35861 r(Momo-dev:tip)) with ESMTP id DB/FB-05850-0A9D2445; Sat, 18 Oct 2014 21:20:32 +0000 In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Thu, 16 Oct 2014 16:01:26 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.94 (windows-nt) X-RR-Connecting-IP: 107.14.64.118:25 X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.1 cv=XbIHzeJ5 c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=AppmJ/7ZOOFWL/q6u6u93g==:117 a=AppmJ/7ZOOFWL/q6u6u93g==:17 a=ayC55rCoAAAA:8 a=fNEgcOh0sVsA:10 a=o_R75loqY_IA:10 a=9i_RQKNPAAAA:8 a=7mjXylMKvMrDOoyciuUA:9 X-Cloudmark-Score: 0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 107.14.73.228 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:175542 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: > The packaging of Emacs does the same with distinct emacs19, emacs20, > emacs21, emacs22, emacs23, and emacs24 packages, each with its own set > of versions. For those users who only want "emacs", it leads to > superfluous packages lying around. For the maintainers, it leads to > extra work. And for users like me, it still doesn't let me cleanly > install Emacs-24.1, Emacs-24.2, and Emacs-24.3 at the same time. At the cost of a lot of disk space, you can install each of those in a separate chroot. I don't know if that qualifies as "easily" for you; I got used to chroot when I was maintaining a couple Debian packages. -- -- Stephe