Re: [Gnewsense-dev] GNU Emacs and GFDL documentation.

[Karl Goetz]

On Sat, 29 Dec 2012, 12:01:34 LHST, Marek Buras <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 07:51:45AM +1100, Karl Goetz wrote:
> > Are they co installable?
> > Thanks,
> > kk
> > 
> 
> Yes, I think it's safe to have emacs23 and emacs24 flavours installed
> and use both on one parkes system. The only package I know of that needs
> small modification is auctex, since version available in parkes knows
> nothing about emacs24. But fixing this issue is really easy (i don't
> remember exacly now, but it was few lines in one or two files to change).

If they are co installable then you could (in theory) do a backport but it 
opens up a can of worms of people requesting upgrades to related packages, to 
say nothing of thr potential for subtle bugs.
Thanks,
kk