Re: prompt to create non existent directory.

[Emanuel Berg]

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?

> (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?

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.

Another idea would be to set up a "bleeding
edge" repo and hook into that with the
/etc/apt/sources.list config.

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