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: How to uninstall Emacs? Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2015 22:59:24 +0000 Message-ID: <87d231cab7.fsf@gmail.com> References: <878ue21nkc.fsf@gmail.com> <87fv88q4t5.fsf@debian.uxu> <87sic6stcg.fsf_-_@gmail.com> <20150411125610231765777@bob.proulx.com> <87lhhx7f6s.fsf@gmail.com> <87mw25dtzz.fsf_-_@gmail.com> <20150418162203279524089@bob.proulx.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1429397812 1507 80.91.229.3 (18 Apr 2015 22:56:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2015 22:56:52 +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 19 00:56:44 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 1YjbfG-00029q-TS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Apr 2015 00:56:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47054 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YjbfG-0006mc-BW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Apr 2015 18:56:42 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51941) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yjbf6-0006je-EQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Apr 2015 18:56:33 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yjbf3-000481-50 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Apr 2015 18:56:32 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:55051) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yjbf2-00047x-U6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Apr 2015 18:56:29 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Yjbf0-0001zD-VE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Apr 2015 00:56:27 +0200 Original-Received: from adsl-ull-102-104.47-151.net24.it ([151.47.104.102]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 19 Apr 2015 00:56:26 +0200 Original-Received: from rodolfo.medina by adsl-ull-102-104.47-151.net24.it with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 19 Apr 2015 00:56:26 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 55 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-ull-102-104.47-151.net24.it User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:eM/VF7eW4MkMeNbwFaeoQZdqv/4= 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:103849 Archived-At: Bob Proulx writes: > Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> Rodolfo Medina writes: >> > Bob Proulx writes: >> > > Additionally instead of installing "emacs24" directly it is >> > > better to install the "emacs" package. That will always depend >> > > upon the best version available. Previously it was emacs23. In >> > > Jessie it is emacs24. In this way emacs is automatically >> > > upgraded. If only emacs24 is installed then the assumption is >> > > that you don't want to upgrade when emacs25 becomes available. >> > >> > To do so, I should now: >> > >> > # aptitude purge emacs24 >> > # aptitude install emacs >> >> I did so, and seems all right. > > The end result is okay but it wastefully removes emacs24 and then > immediately installs it again. 'emacs24' is a dependency of the > current 'emacs'. Why remove what will be immediately re-installed? Maybe it was enough simply # aptitude install emacs . The reason to install `emacs' package having emacs24 already installed is what you said above: >> > > Additionally instead of installing "emacs24" directly it is >> > > better to install the "emacs" package. That will always depend >> > > upon the best version available. Previously it was emacs23. In >> > > Jessie it is emacs24. In this way emacs is automatically >> > > upgraded. If only emacs24 is installed then the assumption is >> > > that you don't want to upgrade when emacs25 becomes available. > See this for a more full answer and description: > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2015-04/msg00174.html > > Additionally this too: > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2015-04/msg00178.html Yes, it's our present thread. Thanks, Rodolfo