From: Joost Kremers <joostkremers@fastmail.fm>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Adding Emms to ELPA (take 2), and a technical question
Date: Fri, 01 May 2020 08:32:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ftckupvx.fsf@fastmail.fm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1jULmk-00087p-GV@fencepost.gnu.org>
On Fri, May 01 2020, Richard Stallman wrote:
> [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider
> ]]]
> [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies,
> ]]]
> [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's
> example. ]]]
>
> Lots of packages require building and that uses tools.
> Emacs, for instance, needs various tools to build it,
> including a C compiler. Nothing wrong or unusual there.
>
> What alarms me about pdf-tools is that it tries to install those
> tools
> itself rather than leaving the user in control of that step.
Mind you, pdf-tools does ask the user for permission first and it
pops up a buffer where you can follow what is happening.
Honestly, as a user of pdf-tools, I'm glad this happen
automatically if I choose to. Saves me from opening a shell and
copy&pasting a bunch of commands.
--
Joost Kremers
Life has its moments
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-01 6:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-24 19:06 Adding Emms to ELPA (take 2), and a technical question Yoni Rabkin
2020-04-25 3:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-04-28 13:28 ` Yoni Rabkin
2020-04-28 15:06 ` Robert Pluim
2020-04-28 16:02 ` Yoni Rabkin
2020-04-29 3:22 ` Richard Stallman
2020-04-29 8:13 ` Robert Pluim
2020-04-30 2:32 ` Richard Stallman
2020-04-29 11:53 ` Yoni Rabkin
2020-04-30 14:43 ` Yoni Rabkin
2020-05-01 2:52 ` Richard Stallman
2020-05-01 6:32 ` Joost Kremers [this message]
2020-05-01 14:07 ` Arthur Miller
2020-05-01 14:42 ` Joost Kremers
2020-05-01 14:51 ` Arthur Miller
2020-04-29 10:07 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2020-04-29 12:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-27 19:44 ` Yoni Rabkin
2020-05-28 2:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-28 5:34 ` Sean Whitton
2020-05-29 2:46 ` Yoni Rabkin
2020-06-15 19:32 ` Yoni Rabkin
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