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Re: GnuTLS for W32
From: |
Juanma Barranquero |
Subject: |
Re: GnuTLS for W32 |
Date: |
Thu, 5 Jan 2012 21:30:23 +0100 |
On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 17:19, chad <address@hidden> wrote:
> Out of curiosity, do you assemble the pieces of your operating system by hand
No, because I'm not offered that alternative in the system I use.
> and manually check for updates yourself?
I disable automatic checking and do manual checks every now and then, yes.
> Do you think that most GNU/Linux distributions are too much like `software as
> a service' for the same reasons?
Certainly I don't like much the way GNU/Linux distributions are going.
> It would mean that the default Emacs would automatically try to establish a
> network connection without asking you, yes.
If my vote counts, I'll vote against that being the default.
> If you believe that the default user is opposed to this, I'll suggest that
> you might not have noticed them all voting with their feet in favor of this
> at least a decade ago. This isn't even the old `Windows Majority', even - I
> can't think of a computing system today that meets the criteria ``might run
> Emacs 24.2'' and ``does NOT somehow check the network for critical updates in
> the default installation''.
Last I checked, Emacs wasn't yet an operating system. There are plenty
of applications, many of them quite new, with no automatic checking
and/or upgrading.
Juanma
- Re: GnuTLS for W32, (continued)
- Re: GnuTLS for W32, Ted Zlatanov, 2012/01/04
- Re: GnuTLS for W32, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2012/01/04
- Re: GnuTLS for W32, Ted Zlatanov, 2012/01/04
- Re: GnuTLS for W32, chad, 2012/01/04
- Re: GnuTLS for W32, Ted Zlatanov, 2012/01/04
- Re: GnuTLS for W32, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/01/05
- Re: GnuTLS for W32, Ted Zlatanov, 2012/01/05
- Re: GnuTLS for W32, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/01/05
- Re: GnuTLS for W32, Juanma Barranquero, 2012/01/05
- Re: GnuTLS for W32, chad, 2012/01/05
- Re: GnuTLS for W32,
Juanma Barranquero <=
- Re: GnuTLS for W32, chad, 2012/01/05
- Re: GnuTLS for W32, Juanma Barranquero, 2012/01/05
- Re: GnuTLS for W32, Richard Riley, 2012/01/05
- Re: GnuTLS for W32, Juanma Barranquero, 2012/01/05
- Re: GnuTLS for W32, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/01/06
- Re: GnuTLS for W32, Juanma Barranquero, 2012/01/05
- Re: GnuTLS for W32, chad, 2012/01/05
- Re: GnuTLS for W32, Juanma Barranquero, 2012/01/05
- Re: GnuTLS for W32, Óscar Fuentes, 2012/01/05
- Re: GnuTLS for W32, Juanma Barranquero, 2012/01/05