From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: What's twiddle in emacs-goodies pacakage ? Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2017 01:10:35 -0500 Message-ID: References: <1269142063.1142990.1487610050055.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <1269142063.1142990.1487610050055@mail.yahoo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1487657469 15801 195.159.176.226 (21 Feb 2017 06:11:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2017 06:11:09 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) Cc: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" To: chaouche yacine Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 21 07:11:04 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cg3fC-0003Wm-Rk for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Feb 2017 07:11:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42509 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cg3fI-0005AF-Ja for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Feb 2017 01:11:08 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49774) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cg3es-00059z-QI for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Feb 2017 01:10:43 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cg3er-0002Yf-KU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Feb 2017 01:10:42 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:57021) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cg3eo-0002Y6-5l; Tue, 21 Feb 2017 01:10:38 -0500 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1cg3el-00052Q-Tv; Tue, 21 Feb 2017 01:10:36 -0500 X-Spook: Tucson MD2 Typhoon AMEMB hackers doctrine Bust radar X-Ran: 7OLI? (chaouche yacine's message of "Mon, 20 Feb 2017 17:00:50 +0000 (UTC)") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:112357 Archived-At: As a not very helpful comment, I'll say that IMO the Debian emacs-goodies package is mainly just a collection of very old stuff, much of which may not work any more. Unless you know that you actually need it, I would just apt-get purge it, because all it's likely to do is complicate upgrades of the installed Emacs package (due to the way Debian handles that). Ref eg this 4 year old report https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=705059