From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Seweryn Kokot Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: understanding emacs packages Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2007 20:36:21 +0200 Message-ID: <87fy0shwpm.fsf@poczta.po.opole.pl> References: <1191413661.873145.69990@w3g2000hsg.googlegroups.com> <874ph8nwe1.fsf@W0053328.mgh.harvard.edu> <1191420317.776020.58280@d55g2000hsg.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1191437102 6733 80.91.229.12 (3 Oct 2007 18:45:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 18:45:02 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 03 20:44:59 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Id9D5-0002j1-Pt for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Oct 2007 20:44:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Id9D1-0007ga-Ij for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Oct 2007 14:44:35 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Id99J-0004P0-E2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Oct 2007 14:40:45 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Id99I-0004O1-4U for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Oct 2007 14:40:44 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Id99H-0004Nn-Sr for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Oct 2007 14:40:43 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Id99H-0003W8-EQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Oct 2007 14:40:43 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Id96B-000364-Fp for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Oct 2007 18:37:31 +0000 Original-Received: from nat-warynskiego.po.opole.pl ([217.173.199.132]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 03 Oct 2007 18:37:31 +0000 Original-Received: from s.kokot by nat-warynskiego.po.opole.pl with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 03 Oct 2007 18:37:31 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 32 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: nat-warynskiego.po.opole.pl X-PGP-FP: BF2E 7101 B6C4 CE71 527E 1A06 9B17 0C43 20EC 5AC1 X-PGP: 20EC5AC1 X-Operating-System: Debian GNU/Linux X-Homepage: http://www.skokot.po.opole.pl User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:h/giOJ24QB530KOaZW9t93ZZZrk= X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:48090 Archived-At: knubee writes: >> Why are you re-installing lisp packages? > > I recently upgraded from emacs 21.4 to 22. Some of the packages I used > were not part of the earlier distribution. I am trying to learn about > ways to check what is actually included in a distribution. Are slocate > or manual inspection of site-lisp the two main options? > >> What feature of your Linux distro would interact with Emacs packages? > > I ask because I do not know. > >> > - Does this mean that "planner-el" is an elisp implementation of >> > "planner"? >> >> Is there another possible implementation of planner? > > Um. let me rephrase my question: is planner-el a *replacement* for > "planner" -- or does it *rely* on it? No, they are two different pieces of software. planner package is a project management application see: http://live.gnome.org/Planner and planner-el is well described on emacs wiki http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/PlannerMode regards, -- Seweryn Kokot