From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: 'bzr init-repo .' crashes for lack of module bz2. Help, please! Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2010 09:06:05 +0900 Message-ID: <87y6ked98y.fsf@catnip.gol.com> References: <20091228170401.GA4553@muc.de> <4B3939AB.7070501@harpegolden.net> <20091229200832.GA5097@muc.de> <20091229205734.GB5097@muc.de> <4B3A957B.9050106@harpegolden.net> <20091231120648.GA2801@muc.de> <4B3CD9A9.9030705@harpegolden.net> <20100103173342.GA1653@muc.de> <87bphbf3zy.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> <20100103215647.GC1653@muc.de> Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1262563590 2773 80.91.229.12 (4 Jan 2010 00:06:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 00:06:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Alan Mackenzie Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 04 01:06:23 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NRaSk-0008Gv-97 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 Jan 2010 01:06:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37126 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NRaSk-0005Do-R2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Jan 2010 19:06:22 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NRaSg-0005DR-2C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Jan 2010 19:06:18 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NRaSb-0005Cv-J8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Jan 2010 19:06:17 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=60143 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NRaSb-0005Cs-DX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Jan 2010 19:06:13 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp12.dentaku.gol.com ([203.216.5.74]:53431) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NRaSZ-0000BZ-5X; Sun, 03 Jan 2010 19:06:11 -0500 Original-Received: from 218.231.177.74.eo.eaccess.ne.jp ([218.231.177.74] helo=catnip.gol.com) by smtp12.dentaku.gol.com with esmtpa (Dentaku) id 1NRaSW-0005Yc-4w; Mon, 04 Jan 2010 09:06:08 +0900 Original-Received: by catnip.gol.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 5E88DDF31; Mon, 4 Jan 2010 09:06:05 +0900 (JST) System-Type: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu In-Reply-To: <20100103215647.GC1653@muc.de> (Alan Mackenzie's message of "Sun, 3 Jan 2010 21:56:47 +0000") Original-Lines: 20 X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV GOL (outbound) X-Abuse-Complaints: abuse@gol.com X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:119328 Archived-At: Alan Mackenzie writes: > It is an old Debian system ("sarge") and I find its full screen packaging > utility "aptitude" too baroque for my taste - it's almost as complicated > to use as "mutt" (email client), and that amount of complication is > excessive for a utility I might use two or three times a year. I want a > straightforward command line packaging system Note that aptitude also works as a command line tool, if you give it a command when invoking instead of just saying "aptitude". (e.g. "sudo aptitude install XXX" etc) > so I'm going with gentoo on my next system. If you want to avoid baroqueness, gentoo may not be the best choice... -Miles -- Acquaintance, n. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.