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Re: Version naming
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Stephen Leake |
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Re: Version naming |
Date: |
Sat, 18 Oct 2014 16:20:29 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.94 (windows-nt) |
Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:
> The packaging of Emacs does the same with distinct emacs19, emacs20,
> emacs21, emacs22, emacs23, and emacs24 packages, each with its own set
> of versions. For those users who only want "emacs", it leads to
> superfluous packages lying around. For the maintainers, it leads to
> extra work. And for users like me, it still doesn't let me cleanly
> install Emacs-24.1, Emacs-24.2, and Emacs-24.3 at the same time.
At the cost of a lot of disk space, you can install each of those in a
separate chroot. I don't know if that qualifies as "easily" for you; I
got used to chroot when I was maintaining a couple Debian packages.
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-- Stephe
- Re: Version naming, (continued)
- Re: Version naming, Jens K. Loewe, 2014/10/12
- Re: Version naming, Rob Browning, 2014/10/15
- Re: Version naming, Stefan Monnier, 2014/10/15
- Re: Version naming, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2014/10/16
- Re: Version naming, Barry Warsaw, 2014/10/16
- Re: Version naming, Rob Browning, 2014/10/16
- Re: Version naming, Stefan Monnier, 2014/10/16
- Re: Version naming, Barry Warsaw, 2014/10/16
- Re: Version naming, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2014/10/16
- Re: Version naming, Stefan Monnier, 2014/10/16
- Re: Version naming,
Stephen Leake <=
- Re: Version naming, Stefan Monnier, 2014/10/18
- Re: Version naming, Stephen Leake, 2014/10/18
- Re: Version naming, Stefan Monnier, 2014/10/18
- Re: Version naming, Stephen Leake, 2014/10/19
- Re: Version naming, Stefan Monnier, 2014/10/19