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Re: Official emacs-snapshot backport for sarge
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Angelina Carlton |
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Re: Official emacs-snapshot backport for sarge |
Date: |
Sun, 20 Aug 2006 08:44:47 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Romain Francoise <rfrancoise@debian.org> writes:
> * In case anyone's interested I maintain an official sarge backport of
> my [1 emacs-snapshot packages], available from [2 here]. It's updated
> frequently, but not as often as in sid.
Great! I would like to install this as currently I am using a backport
from http://intrigeri.boum.org/ which no longer seems to be available.
> [2] http://people.debian.org/~rfrancoise/sarge/
is this a repository I can add to my sources? You mentioned it is
updated frequently, (not as often as sid) so if I have to manually
install the .deb's I would have to manually update them also?
> Note that quite a few Emacs-related packages in sarge don't have
> support for emacs-snapshot, but in most cases you can safely install
> the version from etch or sid since they have weak dependencies on the
> rest of the system. One regrettable exception is dictionaries-common,
> so you might want to forcibly prevent it from interfering with
> emacs-snapshot otherwise it'll shadow flyspell and ispell with old
> versions.
I am not sure what exactly this means :-\ Do I put dictionaries-common
on hold? I guess really I am asking if there's a step by step process I
should follow to get your emacs-snapshot backport working.
> (You might not even need external Emacs packages at all
> since emacs-snapshot already includes Gnus 5.11, MH-E, ERC, rcirc,
> Calc, Tramp, ido, python-mode, tumme, Org, etc etc.)
>
The only thing I can think of outside of these is w3m-el which I do use
from time to time, is this something I could install from etch?
Thanks!
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