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? 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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:103731 Archived-At: Bob Proulx 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