From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: prompt to create non existent directory. Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2017 14:03:58 +0100 Message-ID: <868tfox269.fsf@zoho.com> References: <4278608a-d510-46f5-9cdc-3033a2edecbf@googlegroups.com> <20171027201031.GD29934@tuxteam.de> <86k1zgmcf1.fsf@zoho.com> <20171028070135.GA21162@tuxteam.de> <86fu9xm2uf.fsf@zoho.com> <20171102105721.GD27253@tuxteam.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1509627921 18558 195.159.176.226 (2 Nov 2017 13:05:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2017 13:05:21 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 02 14:05:02 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eAFB4-00036t-Bc for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Nov 2017 14:04:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60287 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eAFBB-0004JZ-Bq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Nov 2017 09:05:05 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47292) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eAFAX-0004JF-6Q for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Nov 2017 09:04:31 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eAFAR-0007sX-9l for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Nov 2017 09:04:25 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=45484 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eAFAR-0007qZ-2H for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Nov 2017 09:04:19 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eAFAG-0007uR-3u for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Nov 2017 14:04:08 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 40 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:vxPYhy694jtmvQt9xwMrX94mwyg= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 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:114725 Archived-At: 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