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From: Eric Brown <brown@fastmail.com>
To: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
Cc: Help Gnu Emacs mailing list <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Melpa failure :-(
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2015 12:28:03 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2vbgt2voc.fsf@air.ben-zion.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87twwdl5fm.fsf@mbork.pl> (Marcin Borkowski's message of "Sat, 18 Apr 2015 19:19:57 +0200")


Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> writes:

> Am I the only one to suffer from upgrade failures from time to time?
> Might it be the fault of the pacakge manager, or is using Melpa (not the
> stable version) just asking for trouble?  I have to say that I'm on the
> verge of deciding to drop this whole package manager stuff and switching
> to Git or manual install from EW: it will be a bit more work, but at
> least I won't break my Emacs that easily (and I'll be able to easily
> revert to the previous state).
>

No, you are not alone. I recommend using QUELPA, which will allow you to
keep cutting-edge as much as possible, but roll back to a previous
commit if (and when!) you run into trouble.

https://github.com/quelpa/quelpa

You could synthesize a Marmalade/MELPA-stable experience if you dial-in
the commits corresponding to tagged releases.



  reply	other threads:[~2015-04-18 17:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-18 17:19 Melpa failure :-( Marcin Borkowski
2015-04-18 17:28 ` Eric Brown [this message]
2015-04-18 17:35 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-04-18 19:41   ` Memnon Anon
2015-04-18 23:57     ` Drew Adams
2015-04-19  0:09       ` Drew Adams
2015-04-18 23:54   ` Drew Adams
2015-04-18 23:47 ` Drew Adams
2015-04-19  4:10 ` Alexis
     [not found] ` <mailman.1078.1429416648.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-04-19 23:17   ` gnuist006
2015-04-21  6:13     ` Alexis

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