From: Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Remove the build-in orgmode
Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2014 12:01:51 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tx7yrpqo.fsf@alphaville.bos.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 8761ke5dvj.fsf@bzg.ath.cx
Bastien <bzg@gnu.org> writes:
> Hi Thorsten,
>
> Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> (On Archlinux) I simply trash the Org dir shipped with Emacs and put a
>> symlink to my git-version of Org-mode there. I was told I shouldn't do
>> that, but since I had many problems with mixed installs before, and no
>> problems at all after doing so, I stick with this apparently 'bad
>> habit'.
>
> I confirm this is a bad habit :)
>
I did that in the past (presumably for reasons similar to Thorsten's)
and I don't bother any longer (overriding is simple enough as you point
out), but the question still bugs me: what's so bad about it? The
only reason I'm not doing it is laziness. Are there others?
Nick
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-06-06 16:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-06-01 22:22 Remove the build-in orgmode Shiyuan
2014-06-02 6:46 ` Brady Trainor
2014-06-02 7:18 ` Rainer M Krug
2014-06-02 7:26 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2014-06-06 14:09 ` Bastien
2014-06-06 16:01 ` Nick Dokos [this message]
2014-06-06 18:12 ` Achim Gratz
2014-06-07 5:57 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2014-06-11 6:05 ` Shiyuan
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