From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Adding Emms to ELPA (take 2), and a technical question Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2020 23:22:55 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87pnbwg0up.fsf@rabkins.net> <87lfmfbuxz.fsf@rabkins.net> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="126308"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: yoni@rabkins.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Robert Pluim Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 29 05:24:01 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jTdKL-000Wim-Mj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 29 Apr 2020 05:24:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59350 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jTdKK-0000B2-Mf for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 28 Apr 2020 23:24:00 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:53994) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jTdJJ-0007dY-2y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Apr 2020 23:23:12 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:46510) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jTdJI-0006Ev-NL; Tue, 28 Apr 2020 23:22:56 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jTdJH-0006I9-6x; Tue, 28 Apr 2020 23:22:55 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Robert Pluim on Tue, 28 Apr 2020 17:06:00 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:248066 Archived-At: [[[ 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. ]]] > 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.) -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)