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: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 22:32:02 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1jTyza-0001Cm-Af@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2sggmwvyi.fsf@gmail.com> (message from Robert Pluim on Wed, 29 Apr 2020 10:13:41 +0200)
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> If you want to use pdf-tools, and decide not to let it install the
> required packages for you, you have to install them on its behalf.
That way of doing things is fine. Having one package automatically
install another package is asking for trouble.
> It uses 'sudo', and is very clear about that too. Of course if youʼre
> installing by hand you can install packages as non-root and play games
> with PKG_CONFIG_PATH to get pdf-tools to find them.
This seems like really asking for it. I don't think packages should
behave this way.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-30 2:32 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 [this message]
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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