From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: [solved] Re: How to uninstall Emacs? Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2015 19:02:18 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <87iod1xoth.fsf@debian.uxu> References: <878ue21nkc.fsf@gmail.com> <87fv88q4t5.fsf@debian.uxu> <87sic6stcg.fsf_-_@gmail.com> <20150411125610231765777@bob.proulx.com> <31494ab9-df9b-4ae8-9b28-5bac98647c57@googlegroups.com> 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 1428858018 17783 80.91.229.3 (12 Apr 2015 17:00:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2015 17:00:18 +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 19:00:17 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 1YhLF3-0008TT-3K for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 Apr 2015 19:00:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45858 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YhLF2-0008LL-40 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 Apr 2015 13:00:16 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 54 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: feB02bRejf23rfBm51Mt7Q.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:23cFvZ5XuRM1f5ZUwdEBAcPdccQ= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:211377 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:103659 Archived-At: 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! -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573