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Re: prompt to create non existent directory.
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tomas |
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Re: prompt to create non existent directory. |
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Thu, 2 Nov 2017 14:19:15 +0100 |
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On Thu, Nov 02, 2017 at 02:03:58PM +0100, Emanuel Berg wrote:
> t wrote:
>
> > tomas@trotzki:~$ dpkg --get-selections | grep
> > -v deinstall | wc -l 724
>
> incal@stalin:~$ dpkg --get-selections | grep -v deinstall | wc -l
>
> 2100
>
> ... yes?
Yes, ramping up, as I said :-)
> > (Emacs, btw. is a stellar example. Don't care
> > about latest and greatest? Fine. Distro does
> > a perfect job. Do care? Also fine, go ahead.)
>
> Of course anyone can get the source for
> whatever SW and compile it on their computers
> if that is what you mean by "go ahead".
>
> But why can't you get the "latest and greatest"
> thru you distro or an interface equally simple
> as the pack manager?
Because for ~98% of those packages I want "tried and
tested" and not "latest and greatest". The other 2%
I care specially for I put more admin work into (and
bear with ocassional breakage).
> Well, sometimes you can, and this is what those
> gadgets do! It is not a pesky icon somewhere on
> a desktop that pops up every time you look at
> it you should download some new version.
> They are shell tools just like the apt- family
> or what have you.
>
> Sure no one ever did one for Emacs? I don't see
> why it wouldn't be just an easy wrapper to do.
It's still one gadget per app to take care of.
I don't feel like feeding thousands of gadgets,
even if they are shell scripts.
> Another idea would be to set up a "bleeding
> edge" repo and hook into that with the
> /etc/apt/sources.list config.
Try Debian unstable.
Cheers
- -- tomás
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