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From: Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Resources for an old newbie ?
Date: Tue, 30 May 2023 04:18:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sfbe8suy.fsf@dataswamp.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 875y8a698v.fsf@web.de

Michael Heerdegen wrote:

>> I think I once started into building emacs from scratch
>> without knowing much about apt or anything about snap,
>> flathub, or guix. I quickly started running into
>> installation of large numbers of other dependencies that
>> looked like they would require too much overwriting of
>> system libraries.
>
> Not really: those dependencies are "-dev" named packages
> that are used _only_ for building software. These don't
> overwrite system libraries.

Sweat Suzy, of course they don't ...

> First and foremost it's important that you understand what
> you are doing. If you don't have a good feeling, don't
> do it.

One doesn't have to understand everything 100% the first time
one does it.

Not that there should be that much to understand here, at
a conceptual level. The source is downloaded, compiled, and
installed. Isn't that pretty much it?

-- 
underground experts united
https://dataswamp.org/~incal




  reply	other threads:[~2023-05-30  2:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 87+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-05-22  0:44 Resources for an old newbie ? Frederick Bartlett
2023-05-22  0:50 ` Eduardo Ochs
2023-05-22  1:30 ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-05-22  1:39   ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-05-22  6:33 ` Basile Starynkevitch
2023-05-23  0:11   ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-05-23  5:31     ` Emanuel Berg
2023-05-23 20:19       ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-05-25  0:55         ` Emanuel Berg
2023-05-23 23:09       ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-05-25  1:13         ` Emanuel Berg
2023-05-26  3:28           ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-05-27  5:41             ` Emanuel Berg
2023-05-28  1:50               ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-05-28 21:23                 ` Emanuel Berg
2023-05-24  4:25       ` tomas
2023-05-25  1:25         ` Emanuel Berg
2023-05-25  4:01           ` tomas
2023-05-26  1:26             ` David Masterson
2023-05-26  3:36               ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-05-26  4:13                 ` Robby Zambito
2023-05-27  4:09                   ` David Masterson
2023-05-27  5:29                     ` Emanuel Berg
2023-05-29 22:13                       ` David Masterson
2023-05-27  5:48                     ` Emanuel Berg
2023-05-29 22:14                       ` David Masterson
2023-05-27 17:48                     ` Robby Zambito
2023-05-29 22:23                       ` David Masterson
2023-05-28  2:12                     ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-05-28 21:26                       ` Emanuel Berg
2023-05-29 22:21                       ` David Masterson
2023-05-29 22:52                         ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-05-30  2:18                           ` Emanuel Berg [this message]
2023-06-03 21:40                             ` David Masterson
2023-05-30 23:24                           ` Emanuel Berg
2023-05-31  3:12                             ` Platon Pronko
2023-05-31  3:20                               ` Emanuel Berg
2023-05-31 22:07                               ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-06-03 21:45                               ` David Masterson
2023-06-03 22:03                                 ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-06-03 22:39                                   ` David Masterson
2023-06-03 23:19                                     ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-06-04  1:00                             ` David Masterson
2023-06-04  1:31                               ` Emanuel Berg
2023-06-04  2:15                               ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-06-04  5:23                                 ` David Masterson
2023-06-04  2:21                               ` Emanuel Berg
2023-06-04 21:05                                 ` David Masterson
2023-06-06 16:45                                   ` Emanuel Berg
2023-06-04  3:02                               ` Emanuel Berg
2023-06-04 21:01                                 ` David Masterson
2023-06-04  5:25                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-04  7:08                                 ` Basile Starynkevitch
2023-06-04 20:35                                   ` David Masterson
2023-06-04  7:26                                 ` David Masterson
2023-06-04  7:37                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-04 10:45                                     ` Emanuel Berg
2023-06-04 20:07                                       ` David Masterson
2023-06-04 22:12                                         ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-06-04 22:36                                           ` David Masterson
2023-06-05 20:34                                         ` Emanuel Berg
2023-06-05 20:35                                         ` Emanuel Berg
2023-06-04 10:39                                   ` Emanuel Berg
2023-06-04 20:23                                     ` David Masterson
2023-06-05  0:29                                       ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-06-05  2:22                                         ` David Masterson
2023-06-05  2:59                                           ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-06-06  1:19                                             ` Emanuel Berg
2023-06-06 16:35                                             ` Emanuel Berg
2023-06-11  3:14                                               ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-06-11  4:48                                                 ` David Masterson
2023-06-11  6:02                                                   ` Emanuel Berg
2023-06-11 23:33                                                   ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-06-11 23:41                                                     ` Emanuel Berg
2023-06-16  2:22                                                       ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-06-16  2:27                                                       ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-06-11  5:54                                                 ` Emanuel Berg
2023-06-11 23:42                                                   ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-06-11 23:56                                                     ` Emanuel Berg
2023-06-05 20:41                                       ` Emanuel Berg
2023-06-03 21:33                           ` David Masterson
2023-05-26  4:28               ` tomas
2023-05-26 11:34                 ` Robert Pluim
2023-05-26 12:06                   ` tomas
2023-05-26 14:11                     ` Robert Pluim
2023-05-26 21:40               ` Emanuel Berg
2023-06-08  8:39                 ` Emanuel Berg

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