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From: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Version naming
Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2014 16:20:29 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <85wq7xcbxe.fsf@stephe-leake.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvd29rpz1z.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Thu, 16 Oct 2014 16:01:26 -0400")

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> The packaging of Emacs does the same with distinct emacs19, emacs20,
> emacs21, emacs22, emacs23, and emacs24 packages, each with its own set
> of versions.  For those users who only want "emacs", it leads to
> superfluous packages lying around.  For the maintainers, it leads to
> extra work.  And for users like me, it still doesn't let me cleanly
> install Emacs-24.1, Emacs-24.2, and Emacs-24.3 at the same time.

At the cost of a lot of disk space, you can install each of those in a
separate chroot. I don't know if that qualifies as "easily" for you; I
got used to chroot when I was maintaining a couple Debian packages.

-- 
-- Stephe



  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-10-18 21:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-29 17:19 Version naming Stefan Monnier
2014-09-30  4:55 ` Drew Adams
2014-09-30  7:03 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2014-10-10  7:58   ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2014-10-11  0:28     ` Glenn Morris
2014-10-11 11:18       ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2014-10-15  7:13         ` Glenn Morris
2014-10-15 10:46           ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2014-09-30 14:13 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-09-30 14:17   ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-10-15 22:42   ` Rob Browning
2014-10-16  2:47     ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-16  6:10       ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-10-16 13:51       ` Barry Warsaw
2014-10-16 17:19         ` Rob Browning
2014-10-24  1:08           ` Rob Browning
2014-10-24  6:57             ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-24 15:31             ` Ulrich Mueller
2014-10-16 20:01         ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-16 21:31           ` Barry Warsaw
2014-10-17  1:04           ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-10-17  1:53             ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-18 21:20           ` Stephen Leake [this message]
2014-10-18 22:03             ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-19  2:18               ` Stephen Leake
2014-10-19  2:47                 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-19 17:53                   ` Stephen Leake
2014-10-20  1:09                     ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-12 22:27 ` Jens K. Loewe

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