Re: Resources for an old newbie ?

[David Masterson]

Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> writes:

> David Masterson <dsmasterson@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Agreed to both of you.  Installing the dependencies via the standard
>> system package manager gives you the (illusionary?) feeling that the
>> dependencies are okay with everything else on the system.
>
> Dunno about the feelings - but the package managers job is to _ensure_
> that dependencies are ok.  There can be conflicts that have to be
> resolved (before anything is changed on disk).  Then you should
> keep an eye on what you are doing or what the automatic resolver
> suggests - before confirming a suggestion that will remove the complete
> desktop environment you are just using at the moment.
>
> Nothing will just break because you install some additional packages.
> That's just - feelings.

:-)

>> Building yourself is time consuming (especially on a Chromebook! [CBs go
>> to sleep when you walk away!]) and increases diisk space usage.
>
> You can use the -j switch to build using multiple CPUs in parallel (when
> you have them).  I am using "make -j4" and that builds Emacs completely
> in few minutes on a really old Laptop.  A rebuild is often much faster
> anyway (when not everything has to be build from scratch).

True.  I'll play with "-j".

-- 
David Masterson