From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Make a "general" Emacs configuration Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 19:23:12 +0200 Organization: Informatimago Message-ID: <87ocda1iwv.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> References: <87wrry1m97.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291874555 27226 80.91.229.12 (9 Dec 2010 06:02:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 06:02:35 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 09 07:02:30 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PQZaE-0008MG-Pc for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 07:02:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36582 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQX3P-00078V-Gw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 22:20:23 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 24 Original-X-Trace: individual.net 52GJWSvAIh1yLPRHuMvI8A45SjzrVQiKD+KMo4z0klEARjHAr6 Cancel-Lock: sha1:MjU2ZDU0NjZkNTE0MDQ2YmNlM2U5Mzg4NGExMDJjZWZhNGI1MTlkNQ== sha1:phiWZ19HfRk7UR64Etiu64/GtG8= Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA oElEQVR4nK3OsRHCMAwF0O8YQufUNIQRGIAja9CxSA55AxZgFO4coMgYrEDDQZWPIlNAjwq9 033pbOBPtbXuB6PKNBn5gZkhGa86Z4x2wE67O+06WxGD/HCOGR0deY3f9Ijwwt7rNGNf6Oac l/GuZTF1wFGKiYYHKSFAkjIo1b6sCYS1sVmFhhhahKQssRjRT90ITWUk6vvK3RsPGs+M1RuR mV+hO/VvFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en X-Disabled: X-No-Archive: no User-Agent: Gnus/5.101 (Gnus v5.10.10) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:180550 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:76771 Archived-At: rustom writes: > On Aug 10, 9:11 pm, p...@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) > wrote: >> You could just rely on the work done by your linux distribution.  For >> example, gentoo automatically updates the site-start.el file (actually >> site-gentoo.el, loaded from site-start.el), when you install, update >> or remove packages from the app-emacs category. > > Just wondering how much other linux-emacs-ers share this view? > My general impression (from hanging about this list) is that linux > distros nowadays screw up emacs so bad it turns out simpler and less > work to compile it from source. > > But maybe its just ubuntu/debian that are screwing up... > > Personally Ive been using a my-compiled linux for some time but this > causes its own issues because apt thinks I dont have emacs... I'm happy with gentoo's treatment of emacs (and even of most of Common Lisp stuff, if you don't install clc, the Common Lisp Controller). -- __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/