From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Allowing rolling release packages on ELPA Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2022 15:18:14 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87o7u4p2t4.fsf@posteo.net> <874jvvm9hn.fsf@protesilaos.com> <7c2bdbbd-bd23-cda9-50d4-23c4702215df@secure.kjonigsen.net> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="40137"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Kangas Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 26 21:20:36 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1onlx5-000A5s-R3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 26 Oct 2022 21:20:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1onlur-0007fd-Vd; Wed, 26 Oct 2022 15:18:18 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1onlup-0007ey-5u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Oct 2022 15:18:15 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1onluo-00021N-U3; Wed, 26 Oct 2022 15:18:14 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=gXYbFYDOWcYcZCG60hVZL2ncmxB0t2MInQ6n9XqMtSk=; b=DqSK7/C7jpgL +F2TT5pOuljPxxuYzaMXSVxdKFQLEdGU/qaIY4vI+jWeWFCaMPsr2P2frWRKIwgsbnuDdGgT5cp2j isNJrIxvOPVjMId6iDI1Ce/gKerEan4DTTnyzOllcILWxim9alf/SUtSZclxsOdBs07wCfKvme3/g kAMZo+a7UDtinERKa/G85r3N8UvejxVIex/01288YuW48JxuyOXH3WZoPKwp+uZ2zRqfW3Fb5mlee rYPuGRa7rw83ZiQVVFlh0/nQXLB+19yCff4xMN35WbGMsN3bgSxCHYxoqJE7NjmnRrQHWTBOSJkN2 ywC8fm4upVmp3HBvvXLHUQ==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1onluo-0005cb-Lx; Wed, 26 Oct 2022 15:18:14 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Kangas on Mon, 24 Oct 2022 07:06:18 -0700) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:298578 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > There are different schools of thought here, but this is my take: > When I upgrade my packages, I want to get a known-good version, not > whatever happens to have just landed on the master branch. I tried the > other way for years (with daily updates, etc.), and I eventually reached > the conclusion that I just don't have the time to deal with the breakage > in any of the nearly 100 packages that I have installed. I'm happier > when I can just get my work done. Your whole message seems wise to me. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)