Re: Resources for an old newbie ?

[Emanuel Berg]

Michael Heerdegen wrote:

>> I think I once started into building emacs from scratch
>> without knowing much about apt or anything about snap,
>> flathub, or guix. I quickly started running into
>> installation of large numbers of other dependencies that
>> looked like they would require too much overwriting of
>> system libraries.
>
> Not really: those dependencies are "-dev" named packages
> that are used _only_ for building software. These don't
> overwrite system libraries.

Sweat Suzy, of course they don't ...

> First and foremost it's important that you understand what
> you are doing. If you don't have a good feeling, don't
> do it.

One doesn't have to understand everything 100% the first time
one does it.

Not that there should be that much to understand here, at
a conceptual level. The source is downloaded, compiled, and
installed. Isn't that pretty much it?

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