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: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 22:32:02 -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="15911"; 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 Thu Apr 30 04:32:53 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 1jTz0O-00042b-DZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 30 Apr 2020 04:32:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39522 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jTz0N-0000B7-GF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 29 Apr 2020 22:32:51 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:40872) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jTyzg-0007Wf-5i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Apr 2020 22:32:08 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:41353) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jTyzf-0004FH-QE; Wed, 29 Apr 2020 22:32:07 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jTyza-0001Cm-Af; Wed, 29 Apr 2020 22:32:02 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Robert Pluim on Wed, 29 Apr 2020 10:13:41 +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:248206 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. ]]] > 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. -- 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)