From: Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to uninstall Emacs?
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2015 06:34:59 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pp75sxv0.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20150413164657597591581@bob.proulx.com
Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> writes:
> Rodolfo Medina wrote:
>> Bob Proulx writes:
>> > deb http://http.debian.net/debian jessie main contrib non-free
>>
>> Thanks: in my sources.list I have the non-free section:
>>
>> deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free
>
> Oh! You are running sid. And using the truly global generic
> ftp.debian.org alias for klecker2.snt.utwente.nl. AFAIK that is a
> single machine. That isn't so good.
>
> It would be better to use the http.debian.net redirector service for a
> geographically dynamic redirection. It is relatively new but has been
> proving itself very useful and robust.
Thanks, I'll do so.
> Additionally when running sid there are times when transitions occur
> and dependent packages are removed. It is a best practice for sid
> users to also include testing too. That way during transitions things
> generally continue to be intallable. This is just one of the things
> that person running Sid Unstable is expected to know. Because
> Unstable isn't recommended for people who don't.
>
> I recommend this for you for a generic Sid Unstable system.
>
> deb http://http.debian.net/debian sid main contrib non-free
> deb-src http://http.debian.net/debian sid main contrib non-free
>
> deb http://http.debian.net/debian testing main contrib non-free
> deb-src http://http.debian.net/debian testing main contrib non-free
Thanks. The two last lines relatives to `testing' will be used by the system
only if the first two, relatives to `sid', should fail?
>> To do so, I should now:
>>
>> # aptitude purge emacs24
>> # aptitude install emacs
>>
>> ?
>
> No. Do not purge 'emacs24' as the installation of 'emacs' would
> immediately install 'emacs24' again. That would be silly.
I was referring to what you said:
> 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.
Thanks,
Rodolfo
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Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-04-08 18:29 How to uninstall Emacs? Rodolfo Medina
2015-04-08 18:30 ` J. David Boyd
2015-04-08 18:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-08 21:15 ` Bob Proulx
2015-04-09 19:54 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2015-04-11 13:11 ` Rodolfo Medina
[not found] ` <mailman.243.1428527741.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-04-09 23:07 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-04-11 13:11 ` [solved] " Rodolfo Medina
2015-04-11 19:05 ` Bob Proulx
2015-04-12 11:34 ` Rodolfo Medina
2015-04-13 23:03 ` Bob Proulx
2015-04-15 6:34 ` Rodolfo Medina [this message]
[not found] ` <mailman.611.1428966213.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-04-13 23:23 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-04-15 21:41 ` Bob Proulx
2015-04-16 15:38 ` Rodolfo Medina
2015-04-16 21:16 ` Bob Proulx
[not found] ` <mailman.848.1429218983.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-04-16 22:58 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-04-17 2:46 ` Rusi
2015-04-18 20:39 ` Bob Proulx
[not found] ` <mailman.1049.1429389591.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-04-19 21:42 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-04-19 23:29 ` Bob Proulx
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2015-04-20 1:40 ` Emanuel Berg
[not found] ` <mailman.830.1429198561.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-04-16 22:47 ` Emanuel Berg
[not found] ` <mailman.782.1429134342.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-04-16 1:09 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-04-16 3:58 ` Rusi
2015-04-16 22:44 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-04-17 3:00 ` Rusi
2015-04-18 20:05 ` Bob Proulx
[not found] ` <mailman.1047.1429387523.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-04-19 11:59 ` Jim Diamond
2015-04-19 23:35 ` Bob Proulx
2015-04-20 7:46 ` Alexis
[not found] ` <mailman.1136.1429490171.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-04-21 17:53 ` Jim Diamond
2015-04-18 21:08 ` Rodolfo Medina
2015-04-18 22:27 ` Bob Proulx
2015-04-18 22:59 ` Rodolfo Medina
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2015-04-12 14:36 ` [solved] " Rusi
2015-04-12 17:02 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-04-12 18:50 ` Rodolfo Medina
2015-04-12 16:31 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-04-12 18:53 ` Rodolfo Medina
[not found] ` <mailman.482.1428779144.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-04-12 0:01 ` Emanuel Berg
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2015-04-09 13:20 Jorge
2015-04-09 13:41 Jorge
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2015-04-09 22:48 ` Emanuel Berg
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