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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
Cc: yoni@rabkins.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Adding Emms to ELPA (take 2), and a technical question
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2020 23:22:55 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1jTdJH-0006I9-6x@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2wo5zwsyv.fsf@gmail.com> (message from Robert Pluim on Tue, 28 Apr 2020 17:06:00 +0200)

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  > Iʼd take a look at 'pdf-tools', it both compiles C-code and installs
  > necessary packages using 'apt-get' and similar.

That is an undesirable practice: it turns package installation into
something users won't keep track of.

(Secondary practical issue: to succeed in running apt-get it would
have to run as root, I think.)



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  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-04-29  3:22 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 [this message]
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
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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