From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nic Ferrier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: ELPAing all the GNU manuals Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2014 12:10:45 +0100 Message-ID: <87oau0t2yy.fsf@ferrier.me.uk> References: <87tx3st7cs.fsf@ferrier.me.uk> <20140928104735.GB3157@acm.acm> <87lhp4knro.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1411902693 9176 80.91.229.3 (28 Sep 2014 11:11:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2014 11:11:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 28 13:11:26 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 1XYCNy-0007Et-4w for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 28 Sep 2014 13:11:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59204 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XYCNx-0006E1-Mi for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 28 Sep 2014 07:11:25 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50186) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XYCNh-0006Dr-0l for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Sep 2014 07:11:14 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XYCNb-0000ZF-Pn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Sep 2014 07:11:08 -0400 Original-Received: from static.17.66.46.78.clients.your-server.de ([78.46.66.17]:33165 helo=po1.ferrier.me.uk) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XYCNW-0000YM-8o; Sun, 28 Sep 2014 07:10:58 -0400 Original-Received: from nicferrier-dell-xps (140.35.155.90.in-addr.arpa [90.155.35.140]) by po1.ferrier.me.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 2FAD8AC0068; Sun, 28 Sep 2014 13:26:30 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from nicferrier-XPS13-9333 (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nicferrier-dell-xps (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4D6B660257; Sun, 28 Sep 2014 12:10:45 +0100 (BST) In-Reply-To: <87lhp4knro.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (David Kastrup's message of "Sun, 28 Sep 2014 13:06:19 +0200") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 78.46.66.17 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:174764 Archived-At: David Kastrup writes: > Alan Mackenzie writes: > >> You'll get one more non-authoritative place to obtain all these >> manuals, and from this place they're not going to be up to date, >> unless you figure out some mechanism of keeping them up to date. >> Keeping them up to date is going to be a lot of work. > > Uh, I don't _want_ my info manuals to be up to date. I want them to > correspond to the software version I have installed. I have nothing to > gain from using copy&paste of some code from a manual that is not yet > supported by my software. I've just realized I am asking for permission and I should just be doing. But here's one reason why things do go into ELPA. General negativity being almost always the first reaction on this list. Nic