Re: Resources for an old newbie ?

[David Masterson]

Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> writes:

> David Masterson <dsmasterson@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I think I once started into building emacs from scratch without knowing
>> much about apt or anything about snap, flathub, or guix.  I quickly
>> started running into installation of large numbers of other dependencies
>> that looked like they would require too much overwriting of system
>> libraries.
>
> Not really: those dependencies are "-dev" named packages that are used
> _only_ for building software.  These don't overwrite system libraries.
>
> Of course you also must install the tools to build emacs (compiler etc),
> but I don't recall that the dependencies of those were problematic or
> much different from the dependencies of other software.  And the package
> manager of the OS always ensures that all installed packages have acceptable
> versions of libraries installed.
>
> First and foremost it's important that you understand what you are
> doing.  If you don't have a good feeling, don't do it.

Yeah, I retired 10 years ago and I'm out of practice...

I think I'll look into the snap install of Emacs 28.2.  It's a step...

-- 
David Masterson