From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: rustom Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Make a "general" Emacs configuration Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 09:53:59 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <87wrry1m97.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291864655 27026 80.91.229.12 (9 Dec 2010 03:17:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 03:17:35 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 09 04:17:31 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PQX0d-0004gl-2U for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 04:17:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40759 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQX0c-0005jA-8E for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 22:17:30 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!g6g2000pro.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 43 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 116.73.35.230 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1281459239 27306 127.0.0.1 (10 Aug 2010 16:53:59 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 16:53:59 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: g6g2000pro.googlegroups.com; posting-host=116.73.35.230; posting-account=mBpa7woAAAAGLEWUUKpmbxm-Quu5D8ui User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.11) Gecko/20100701 Firefox/3.5.11,gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:180547 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:76532 Archived-At: On Aug 10, 9:11=A0pm, p...@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) wrote: > Andrea Crotti writes: > > I feel that I have to change something in my emacs configuration, what = I > > would like to have is something similar to the linux kernel, where you > > can disable enable things and they keep track of the dependencies. > > > Using many autoloads and hooks it should not be a problem of course but > > I would like to make more modular. > > > But the first thing to do is to move out everything I don't develop. > > For example all the packages that I pull from git, should not be in my > > own git repository, but if I move them out then I need to download them > > every time, and the version could be different. > > > I think that git submodule could be the way to go, BUT I would like to > > keep the same version also, so I upgrade only once and I keep > > consistency everywhere. > > > Reading now again the doc looks like it could work exactly like that > > anyway, but I still have some troubles understanding the submodules... > > > Any example or idea is welcome... > > You could just rely on the work done by your linux distribution. =A0For > example, gentoo automatically updates the site-start.el file (actually > site-gentoo.el, loaded from site-start.el), when you install, update > or remove packages from the app-emacs category. > > -- > __Pascal Bourguignon__ =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0http://www.= informatimago.com/ Just wondering how much other linux-emacs-ers share this view? My general impression (from hanging about this list) is that linux distros nowadays screw up emacs so bad it turns out simpler and less work to compile it from source. But maybe its just ubuntu/debian that are screwing up... Personally Ive been using a my-compiled linux for some time but this causes its own issues because apt thinks I dont have emacs...