From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter S Galbraith Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Software/HD ecology Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2002 08:44:11 -0500 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <20021228134411.6616542F62@mixed.dyndns.org> References: <041220020952400758%ajanta@no.spam> <5ld6obj8il.fsf@rum.cs.yale.edu> <111220021253524057%ajanta@no.spam> <5l65u0i8zj.fsf@rum.cs.yale.edu> <121220021324043990%ajanta@no.spam> <171220021132381961%ajanta@no.spam> <841y422yha.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1041083042 23162 80.91.224.249 (28 Dec 2002 13:44:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2002 13:44:02 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18SHFw-00061B-00 for ; Sat, 28 Dec 2002 14:44:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18SHGT-0007po-01 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 28 Dec 2002 08:44:33 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18SHGB-0007pi-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Dec 2002 08:44:15 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18SHG9-0007lx-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Dec 2002 08:44:14 -0500 Original-Received: from adsl-66.110.153-133.globetrotter.net ([66.110.153.133] helo=mixed.dyndns.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18SHG8-0007gZ-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Dec 2002 08:44:12 -0500 Original-Received: from mixed.dyndns.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mixed.dyndns.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6616542F62 for ; Sat, 28 Dec 2002 08:44:11 -0500 (EST) Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org In-Reply-To: Message from kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Gro johann) <841y422yha.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> X-Mailer: MH-E 7.0+cvs; nmh 1.0.4+dev; Emacs 21.2 X-Face: "#bYm%*(4JuXAkouMxaLz|M2dbXUFnQ"IRX)zpsiM"(B}`#|_b548$VB}5L&VIck1F#FNc' rsASk0?-/gFp2qzM>0]`Jc}Qd<8[l)N7{8%qMN~{|DS.ME.$ X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:5075 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:5075 Kai Großjohann wrote: > Luis Fernandes writes: > > > Only /usr/local/bin needs to be in the user's path. After installing > > emacs, I manually make the links from /usr/local/bin to > > /usr/local/emacs-21.1/bin. > > You will need similar links for the man pages and for the info > files. (And for info, there is the `dir' file to take care of.) Exactly what I was thinking. > IMHO, a software isn't fully installed unless its documentation is > also easily accessible. And some software need editable configuration files, which should be under /etc and be preserved on upgrades. It's all starting to sound like package management to me.