Re: Resources for an old newbie ?

[Robert Pluim]

>>>>> On Fri, 26 May 2023 06:28:33 +0200, tomas@tuxteam.de said:

    tomas> On Thu, May 25, 2023 at 06:26:30PM -0700, David Masterson wrote:
    >> <tomas@tuxteam.de> writes:
    >> 
    >> > On Thu, May 25, 2023 at 03:25:00AM +0200, Emanuel Berg wrote:
    >> >
    >> >> Conclusion: You are allowed to use the latest Emacs even if
    >> >> you use Debian :)
    >> >
    >> > Absolutely.
    >> 
    >> But, if you want to use latest Emacs on stable Debian, do you have to
    >> build Emacs yourself.  If so, do you have to pull in (a lot of) packages
    >> needed to build Emacs, but are not in stable Debian?  Then, do you have
    >> to go through the process of updating these packages to build a clean
    >> Emacs when you update to a new version of Emacs?

    tomas> I compile Emacs somewhat irregularly under Debian stable (currently
    tomas> bullseye). I haven't ever needed anything which hasn't been in the
    tomas> distro (of course, you'll have to install the appropriate build and
    tomas> -dev packages, but once you get the hang of it, that isn't hard).

'apt-get build-dep emacs' is enough on Debian. Emacs tries very hard
not to depend on too-new library versions.

Robert
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