From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jay Belanger Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: best gnu/linux distro for emacs Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2013 11:07:30 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: <87y5dep0al.fsf@gmail.com> References: Reply-To: jay.p.belanger@gmail.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1364097321 21117 80.91.229.3 (24 Mar 2013 03:55:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2013 03:55:21 +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 Mar 24 04:55:48 2013 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 1UJc26-0007MR-Ev for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 Mar 2013 04:55:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57509 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UJc1i-0005RH-S6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 23 Mar 2013 23:55:22 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!us.feeder.erje.net!137.226.231.214.MISMATCH!newsfeed.fsmpi.rwth-aachen.de!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx05.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 16 Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="2aa585afd1951c0cf4ea5b94784f9ed6"; logging-data="9606"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX198ZUV6G24va2dMI7bKLyl25vmPPmMK3kY=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:S+dSmW7yecZSsruZVutN/m7ZKkU= sha1:6GFO881FAQCIXBzMt3w8koQ7a2U= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:197420 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 23 Mar 2013 23:54:58 -0400 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:89702 Archived-At: >> For now, what is the "best" distribution of GNU/Linux for running emacs? ... > Debian is known for relatively strict adherence to the philosophies of > free software. But in Debian, Emacs documentation is in package > `emacs24-common-non-dfsg`, since the Debian community and the FSF have > some disagreement. There are many packages about Emacs in Debian, like > `emacs-goodies-el', `emacs-snapshot' and `debian-el'. And there are > also many Debian related Emacs libraries, like devscripts-el[3], > apt-mode[4], apt-sources[5] and so on. I recall there were some complaints that Debian had some odd Emacs setup; I don't recall the details, but I seem to recall David Kastrup pointing them out. Does anybody remember?