From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rodolfo Medina Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: [solved] Re: How to uninstall Emacs? Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2015 18:50:02 +0000 Message-ID: <87a8ydp4f9.fsf@gmail.com> References: <878ue21nkc.fsf@gmail.com> <87fv88q4t5.fsf@debian.uxu> <87sic6stcg.fsf_-_@gmail.com> <20150411125610231765777@bob.proulx.com> <31494ab9-df9b-4ae8-9b28-5bac98647c57@googlegroups.com> <87iod1xoth.fsf@debian.uxu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1428864459 17414 80.91.229.3 (12 Apr 2015 18:47:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2015 18:47:39 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 12 20:47:31 2015 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 1YhMuo-0000gZ-FW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 Apr 2015 20:47:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46022 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YhMun-0005hr-Kh for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 Apr 2015 14:47:29 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49310) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YhMuc-0005hh-Io for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Apr 2015 14:47:19 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YhMuZ-0007Hm-DC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Apr 2015 14:47:18 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:56481) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YhMuZ-0007Hb-63 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Apr 2015 14:47:15 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YhMuV-0000WE-Kj for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Apr 2015 20:47:11 +0200 Original-Received: from adsl-ull-233-47.47-151.net24.it ([151.47.47.233]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 12 Apr 2015 20:47:11 +0200 Original-Received: from rodolfo.medina by adsl-ull-233-47.47-151.net24.it with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 12 Apr 2015 20:47:11 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 59 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-ull-233-47.47-151.net24.it User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:swenjLpkGK8H9rVtWJQLd5GvwIU= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:103661 Archived-At: Emanuel Berg writes: > Rusi writes: > >> No need As of now emacs depends (and so pulls in) >> emacs24 At some future point it may change that to >> emacs25 when you can (if you wish) remove emacs24 >> >> [There are some minor niggles about manual and auto >> installed tho...] > > There can be several problems which is to be expected > with some 40 000 packs, but if you strictly adhere to > the humpty-dumpty rules of thumb I just posted it > should assure you a minimal dosage of problems. > > However, if the installer (aptitude) chokes, it is > always a good idea to read the output as often the > problems can be easily dealt with. For example, it can > happen that it says: > > mkdir: cannot create directory ‘a/b/c/d’: No such file or directory > > as the result of a command 'mkdir a/b/c/d' - yep, that > should have come with the '-p' or '--parents' option, > and realizing that you can manually create the > directory path to make the aptitude command work if > you invoke it yet again the same way. > > And so on. In particular, if aptitude chokes, you > don't need to reinstall the entire system! > > Another source of annoyance is the division between > the KDE and GNOME tools. Because they depend on > different graphics libraries, installing a simple tool > (which may have an excellent CLI and in essence > doesn't even have anything to do with graphics or the > desktop) you are still required to get the whole > KDE/GNOME tool chain! This is even more annoying as > there is absolutely no need for it save for some > people's hysteria for a consistent "look and feel", > where it is more important that everything looks the > same (and it doesn't even look good at that) instead > on focusing on what the tool does. The result of this > is that tools become dependent on other tools (and > libraries) for no reason with respect to the > functionality or purpose of the tool, but only as > a consequence of the "look and feel" hysteria. > An example is 'gnome-terminal' and a zillion other > pieces of software with the gnome- prefix that > shouldn't have anything to do with GNOME. > So use xterm! About Gnome, I just posted a message on debian users list concerned with what you write. Bye Rodolfo