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Re: understanding emacs packages
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Joel J. Adamson |
Subject: |
Re: understanding emacs packages |
Date: |
Wed, 03 Oct 2007 09:46:46 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.0 (gnu/linux) |
knubee <knubee@gmail.com> writes:
> When I upgrade my gnu/linux distribution and re-install various emacs
> applications, it is not always clear to me what is the cause of an
> error when I run an emacs application. As an example, there may be
> some oddness inserting dates in org-mode. No errors, but failure to do
> things.
Why are you re-installing lisp packages? They should all still be
there in your site-packages directory. On Slackware 12.0 with Emacs
23, under /usr/share/emacs I have
/usr/share/emacs:
total used in directory 10 available 1010628
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 176 2007-09-23 00:05 .
drwxr-xr-x 193 root root 5200 2006-03-25 19:29 ..
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 120 2007-09-24 10:24 21.4
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 72 2007-09-24 10:59 22.1
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 152 2007-09-23 00:05 23.0.0
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 72 2007-05-03 16:01 etc
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4608 2007-09-23 00:05 site-lisp
I should get rid of the 21.4 and 22.1 directories...all the
"third-party" packages are in site-lisp. No reinstalling necessary.
> This could be because the gnu/linux distro is still in beta (e.g.,
> ubuntu gutsy), it could be because I have not installed all the
> necessary emacs packages, or it could be because there non-emacs code/
> application that is necessary.
What feature of your Linux distro would interact with Emacs packages?
[...]
> - Does this mean that "planner-el" is an elisp implementation of
> "planner"?
Is there another possible implementation of planner?
> - If so, are there cases where there is a "foo-el" package that relies
> on a "foo" (non-elisp) application. In other words, can a situation
> arise when I am using an application in emacs and it exhibits odd
> behavior because a non-emacs application needs to be installed? If
> so, is it always obvious?
Sometimes ... emacs-w3m depends on w3m, which needs the gc garbage
collector. AUCTeX requires a TeX system.
> And is there a straightforward way to tell if some package is already
> part of the emacs distribution I am using (so that I do not attempt
> to download/install it myself)?
Look in the version-specific directories and the site-lisp directory
for the elisp files. Or use slocate: "slocate planner.el"
My suggestion is install from source, then your know exactly where
everything is going, but I understand that is a difference of opinion
with potentially religious implications.
Joel
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- understanding emacs packages, knubee, 2007/10/03
- Re: understanding emacs packages,
Joel J. Adamson <=
- Re: understanding emacs packages, knubee, 2007/10/03
- Re: understanding emacs packages, Seweryn Kokot, 2007/10/03
- Re: understanding emacs packages, Tim X, 2007/10/04
- Re: understanding emacs packages, knubee, 2007/10/07
- Re: understanding emacs packages, Eli Zaretskii, 2007/10/07
- Message not available
- Re: understanding emacs packages, knubee, 2007/10/07
- Re: understanding emacs packages, Tim X, 2007/10/07
- Re: understanding emacs packages, Tim X, 2007/10/07