Re: prompt to create non existent directory.

[<tomas@tuxteam.de>]

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On Thu, Nov 02, 2017 at 02:03:58PM +0100, Emanuel Berg wrote:
> t wrote:
> 
> > tomas@trotzki:~$ dpkg --get-selections | grep
> > -v deinstall | wc -l 724
> 
>     incal@stalin:~$ dpkg --get-selections | grep -v deinstall | wc -l
> 
>     2100
> 
> ... yes?

Yes, ramping up, as I said :-)

> > (Emacs, btw. is a stellar example. Don't care
> > about latest and greatest? Fine. Distro does
> > a perfect job. Do care? Also fine, go ahead.)
> 
> Of course anyone can get the source for
> whatever SW and compile it on their computers
> if that is what you mean by "go ahead".
> 
> But why can't you get the "latest and greatest"
> thru you distro or an interface equally simple
> as the pack manager?

Because for ~98% of those packages I want "tried and
tested" and not "latest and greatest". The other 2%
I care specially for I put more admin work into (and
bear with ocassional breakage).

> Well, sometimes you can, and this is what those
> gadgets do! It is not a pesky icon somewhere on
> a desktop that pops up every time you look at
> it you should download some new version.
> They are shell tools just like the apt- family
> or what have you.
> 
> Sure no one ever did one for Emacs? I don't see
> why it wouldn't be just an easy wrapper to do.

It's still one gadget per app to take care of.
I don't feel like feeding thousands of gadgets,
even if they are shell scripts.

> Another idea would be to set up a "bleeding
> edge" repo and hook into that with the
> /etc/apt/sources.list config.

Try Debian unstable.

Cheers
- -- tomás
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