From: Emanuel Berg <moasen@zoho.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: prompt to create non existent directory.
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2017 14:03:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <868tfox269.fsf@zoho.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20171102105721.GD27253@tuxteam.de
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?
> (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?
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.
Another idea would be to set up a "bleeding
edge" repo and hook into that with the
/etc/apt/sources.list config.
--
underground experts united
http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-11-02 13:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-10-27 19:36 prompt to create non existent directory Deric Bytes
2017-10-27 19:53 ` Skip Montanaro
2017-10-30 1:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-10-27 20:10 ` tomas
2017-10-27 22:52 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-10-28 7:01 ` tomas
2017-11-02 9:44 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-11-02 10:57 ` tomas
2017-11-02 13:03 ` Emanuel Berg [this message]
2017-11-02 13:19 ` tomas
2017-11-02 14:25 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-11-02 14:44 ` tomas
2017-11-02 15:06 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-11-02 15:17 ` tomas
2017-10-28 0:48 ` Nick Helm
2017-10-28 7:20 ` Amos Bird
[not found] ` <mailman.2358.1509135046.27995.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2017-10-28 19:41 ` Deric Bytes
2017-10-28 19:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.2416.1509220530.27995.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2017-10-28 20:20 ` Deric Bytes
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