From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bob Proulx Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to uninstall Emacs? Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2015 16:27:30 -0600 Message-ID: <20150418162203279524089@bob.proulx.com> References: <878ue21nkc.fsf@gmail.com> <87fv88q4t5.fsf@debian.uxu> <87sic6stcg.fsf_-_@gmail.com> <20150411125610231765777@bob.proulx.com> <87lhhx7f6s.fsf@gmail.com> <87mw25dtzz.fsf_-_@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1429396073 10725 80.91.229.3 (18 Apr 2015 22:27:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2015 22:27:53 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 19 00:27:47 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YjbDG-0008Rw-K3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Apr 2015 00:27:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46993 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YjbDF-0003hU-Ne for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Apr 2015 18:27:45 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48307) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YjbD5-0003hP-VP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Apr 2015 18:27:36 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YjbD1-0003Qg-5r for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Apr 2015 18:27:35 -0400 Original-Received: from joseki.proulx.com ([216.17.153.58]:33613) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YjbD0-0003Qa-Uw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Apr 2015 18:27:31 -0400 Original-Received: from hysteria.proulx.com (hysteria.proulx.com [192.168.230.119]) by joseki.proulx.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7291921230 for ; Sat, 18 Apr 2015 16:27:30 -0600 (MDT) Original-Received: by hysteria.proulx.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 3E8562DC45; Sat, 18 Apr 2015 16:27:30 -0600 (MDT) Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87mw25dtzz.fsf_-_@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 216.17.153.58 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:103848 Archived-At: Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Rodolfo Medina writes: > > Bob Proulx writes: > > > Additionally instead of installing "emacs24" directly it is > > > better to install the "emacs" package. That will always depend > > > upon the best version available. Previously it was emacs23. In > > > Jessie it is emacs24. In this way emacs is automatically > > > upgraded. If only emacs24 is installed then the assumption is > > > that you don't want to upgrade when emacs25 becomes available. > > > > To do so, I should now: > > > > # aptitude purge emacs24 > > # aptitude install emacs > > I did so, and seems all right. The end result is okay but it wastefully removes emacs24 and then immediately installs it again. 'emacs24' is a dependency of the current 'emacs'. Why remove what will be immediately re-installed? See this for a more full answer and description: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2015-04/msg00174.html Additionally this too: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2015-04/msg00178.html Bob