From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Mackenzie Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: 'bzr init-repo .' crashes for lack of module bz2. Help, please! Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2010 21:56:47 +0000 Message-ID: <20100103215647.GC1653@muc.de> References: <20091228170401.GA4553@muc.de> <4B3939AB.7070501@harpegolden.net> <20091229200832.GA5097@muc.de> <20091229205734.GB5097@muc.de> <4B3A957B.9050106@harpegolden.net> <20091231120648.GA2801@muc.de> <4B3CD9A9.9030705@harpegolden.net> <20100103173342.GA1653@muc.de> <87bphbf3zy.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1262555455 14203 80.91.229.12 (3 Jan 2010 21:50:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2010 21:50:55 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 03 22:50:48 2010 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 1NRYLX-0007XI-QA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Jan 2010 22:50:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59327 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NRYLY-0007nF-Bx for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Jan 2010 16:50:48 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NRYLT-0007mz-74 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Jan 2010 16:50:43 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NRYLO-0007mT-Ma for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Jan 2010 16:50:42 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=48105 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NRYLO-0007mQ-HT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Jan 2010 16:50:38 -0500 Original-Received: from colin.muc.de ([193.149.48.1]:4524 helo=mail.muc.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NRYLN-0000Vx-W4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Jan 2010 16:50:38 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 86463 invoked by uid 3782); 3 Jan 2010 21:50:35 -0000 Original-Received: from acm.muc.de (pD9E52F10.dip.t-dialin.net [217.229.47.16]) by colin2.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Sun, 03 Jan 2010 22:50:34 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail 19730 invoked by uid 1000); 3 Jan 2010 21:56:47 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87bphbf3zy.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.5 (Fettercairn) X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: FreeBSD 4.6-4.9 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:119321 Archived-At: Hi, Tassilo, On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 07:16:33PM +0100, Tassilo Horn wrote: > Alan Mackenzie writes: > I'm just curious, but why didn't you just reinstall your system instead > of working around your broken package manager, thereby deferring that > task only a bit into the future? I'd go nuts with such a severely > broken system. :-) I didn't think of reinstallation, but wouldn't have done it anyway. It's just too unpredictable in how much work it would need to restore it to proper working. My PC works, and it's only a minor inconvenience to build from source code. Most tarballs' error messages are easier to understand than Python's. It is an old Debian system ("sarge") and I find its full screen packaging utility "aptitude" too baroque for my taste - it's almost as complicated to use as "mutt" (email client), and that amount of complication is excessive for a utility I might use two or three times a year. I want a straightforward command line packaging system, so I'm going with gentoo on my next system. > Bye, > Tassilo -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).