Re: Software/HD ecology

[Fredrik Staxeng]

Peter S Galbraith <GalbraithP@dfo-mpo.gc.ca> writes:

>Some people have said that package managers don't solve the problem for
>everyone.  But anyone embarking on coding a new `gnu-install' program
>should see these packagers as prior art and study them first.  They
>pretty much do all of the above already!

They do, but package managers support the packages. This way would be 
the other way around, the packages support the package maintainer.
How many packages out there come with the debian/* files or the
*.rpmspec file, maintained by the original package maintainer?

This is similar to one of the big differences between Linux and Windows.
Linux supports the hardware, but the hardware supports Windows. 

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Fredrik Stax\"ang | rot13: sfgk@hcqngr.hh.fr
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Kai Großjohann wrote:
> Avi Purkayastha <avijit@tacc.utexas.edu> writes:
> 
> 
>>I downloaded and installed GNU emacs v21.3.50 binary(not the terminal
>>emacs that comes with OS X) and have been succesful except for one
>>MAJOR problem. I can copy-and-paste out of an emacs window into a
>>terminal or file, but not the other way around. So the cmd-c and cmd-v
>>commands yield nothing into an emacs window. Any solutions?
> 
> 
> In Emacs, the `paste' command is C-y.
> 
yes, but the paste command is empty or un-highlighted. In other words 
when I copy or cmd-c, it does seem to be `loaded' in any buffer.

I installed this version by downloading the 
EmacsInstaller-02-11-26.dmg.gz and basically untarring and installing 
the binary. If you have this version on your Mac OS X, it would be 
helpful to know how you installed?

thanks
        -- avi