From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Copying .emacs.d Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2016 03:20:16 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <8660tr9igf.fsf@student.uu.se> References: <3b38c65f-a16c-48ff-b50e-ab56df8c73ba@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1464917142 15512 80.91.229.3 (3 Jun 2016 01:25:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2016 01:25:42 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 03 03:25:40 2016 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 1b8drm-0005Vs-6I for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Jun 2016 03:25:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51271 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b8drl-000304-Gj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Jun 2016 21:25:37 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!goblin3!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 37 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: EoOtCC1fCYcttx6jjhWUlA.user.gioia.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:6hsWXyKMYrREc0FwQggYfteiuag= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:217964 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:110272 Archived-At: Eric Brown writes: >> Is it ok to copy over .emacs.d from one >> machine to another (assume similar OS)? I am >> specifically thinking of packages and elpa >> directory -- is there some kind of >> fingerprinting or is it legitimate? Context: >> I'd like to setup one minimal box for my >> students and then they can copy over >> .emacs.d from there to their laptops > > An example of a package that might not > transfer is pdf-tools, as it has > a compiled binary. This sounds almost as the beginning of not Emacs forks, but distributions! Just think about it - people can use the exact same software, only add a couple of packages on top, rebrand the whole thing, and then there can be forks/redistributions of that distribution, and so on, and it can all be hailed as software multitude and proliferation! Now, if computer science students can't be trusted to install a bunch of packages from ELPA, we should all give up, and put the Russian ten thousand ton atomic submarines to nuke the entire good-for-nothing university world from the face of the earth. Only perhaps we should keep LaTeX... -- underground experts united .... http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573 Emacs Gnus Blogomatic ......... http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573/blogomatic - so far: 42 Blogomatic articles -