From: rustom <rustompmody@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: An alternative to a monolithic ~/.emacs init file
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 03:52:43 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1195012363.196769.13490@z24g2000prh.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wssm4htk.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au>
Thanks Tim for the pointers.
On Nov 13, 2:26 pm, Tim X <t...@nospam.dev.null> wrote:
> Ah, yep, your running into one of the issues with using a distro packaging
> system. Packages like ecb depend on a stand alone speedbar package (as do
> the others you listed, but don't know about speedbar now being packaged in
> emacs itself. I'm not sure if you could use the force option to apt to
> install ecb or not. The other issue may also be that I think the bundled
> speedbar version in emacs 22 is older than the version in the stand alone
> package (at least, this was the case some time back before emacs 22 was
> released.)
This is clearly a bigger problem than people are accepting: viz that
there are large systems of packages which are tolerably consistent in
themselves but dont talk nice to each other -- think of
apt <-> emacs
apt <-> ruby/python
eclipse <-> python
apt <-> webmin
I believe that a decent response to this issue will need:
1. A carefully thought-out standardized data oriented way (not XML
please!) for managing package repos
2. An event driven engine maybe along the lines of upstart see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReplacementInit
3. built on an SOA backbone. Yeah I know that programmers are likely
to think of this as unsubstantiated hype but when we do apt-get
install foo we are using an SOA
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-14 3:52 UTC|newest]
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2007-11-07 17:13 ` An alternative to a monolithic ~/.emacs init file rustom
2007-11-08 13:08 ` Sebastian Tennant
[not found] ` <mailman.3126.1194527313.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-11-08 19:53 ` rustom
2007-11-09 14:18 ` Sebastian Tennant
[not found] ` <mailman.3180.1194617919.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-11-10 12:18 ` rustom
2007-11-10 17:13 ` Tom Tromey
[not found] ` <mailman.3247.1194750639.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-11-11 15:29 ` rustom
2007-11-12 21:56 ` Tim X
2007-11-13 4:21 ` rustom
2007-11-13 9:26 ` Tim X
2007-11-14 3:52 ` rustom [this message]
2007-11-13 1:22 ` rustom
2007-11-11 0:09 ` Francisco Miguel Colaço
2007-10-30 15:04 Sebastian Tennant
2007-10-30 20:30 ` Sebastian Tennant
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