Re: Resources for an old newbie ?

[David Masterson <dsmasterson@gmail.com>]

Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org> writes:

> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
>>> Yeah, but it gets you into dependency hell as you follow
>>> the tree of dependencies down.
>>
>> You must either install the dependencies from some distro
>> (which will bring their dependencies, recursively), or build
>> them yourself. There's no way around that. The good news are
>> that you need only do that once.
>
> You can install the dependencies from the repositories (one
> time as you say) and build the latest Emacs manually, every
> day or once a year, whichever is up to you.

Agreed to both of you.  Installing the dependencies via the standard
system package manager gives you the (illusionary?) feeling that the
dependencies are okay with everything else on the system.  Using
something like flatpak gives you the feeling that the dependencies are
in a safe sandbox and won't effect the system, but potentially increases
disk space usage (a strong consideration on a smallish Chromebook).
Building yourself is time consuming (especially on a Chromebook! [CBs go
to sleep when you walk away!]) and increases diisk space usage.

-- 
David Masterson