From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: dhruva Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: CVS is the `released version' Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 11:23:44 +0530 Message-ID: References: <17991.47259.210100.801472@localhost.localdomain> <85d50wq6a9.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <853b1qg358.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1179726844 16380 80.91.229.12 (21 May 2007 05:54:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 05:54:04 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 21 07:54:03 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Hq0qI-00023B-Pz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 May 2007 07:54:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hq0qH-0003Hi-26 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 May 2007 01:54:01 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hq0qD-0003Eg-QL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 May 2007 01:53:57 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hq0qB-00038b-BS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 May 2007 01:53:56 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hq0qB-00038R-5l for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 May 2007 01:53:55 -0400 Original-Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.171]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Hq0q9-0005iH-St for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 May 2007 01:53:54 -0400 Original-Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id j3so935998ugf for ; Sun, 20 May 2007 22:53:44 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=KIQe3VvdFOrhTmOee5VDuZz1niTDTQtE6UvqNPtIMgBjc923+lta5YiG1rqFP2ntKBaWiU/oUHOn7Mb3vYAjFu5AZr7Lm0v0ohWUGKitKJsEAeemzxZcpARvHPVxRZt3ICpZN0uSh/ACh2DHoHvuj8PlBaPOBOGxKCZKY0BarCE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=tUemgEm0uqX0KT/Qlffc0AC7n1I/yEtEHuQmSrgsTQiny4YeTDyRdS/P9mwvZJ7947g3vS2Ehl24ihGmSAp1pB7bSrJQ0Au5baXugbIfMp/T7aIKOFHme03T3KKgZN2eGvUGX1w805PuZwNbhY9Ot3pgZKXRSGRzLWnEyWs+J9M= Original-Received: by 10.78.195.9 with SMTP id s9mr992682huf.1179726824567; Sun, 20 May 2007 22:53:44 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.78.191.13 with HTTP; Sun, 20 May 2007 22:53:44 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <853b1qg358.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> Content-Disposition: inline X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 (Google crawlbot) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:71466 Archived-At: Hi, On 5/21/07, David Kastrup wrote: > Where is the problem with that? Allow for fallback sites to be > specified. The fallback may well end in a central repository, and if > you are lucky, the package drawn from there will have been updated to > know where to get more recent packages in future. Something along the lines of Debian's "apt". It is such a wonderful tool. We could also try to have some sort of dependency check like apt does. It sure helps people wanting to extend Emacs without having to download, compile, file the missing package and go through that loop... I keep promoting Debian and find it's "apt" to be the selling point with administrators! with best regards, dhruva -- Dhruva Krishnamurthy Contents reflect my personal views only!