From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph LANGE Subject: Re: Gentoo ebuild for app-emacs/org-mode-8.0.1 Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 12:54:27 +0100 Message-ID: <51767673.8020008@web.de> References: <51744553.3050407@web.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:56778) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UUbnh-0008P7-Qf for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Apr 2013 07:54:26 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UUbna-000229-5l for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Apr 2013 07:54:21 -0400 Received: from mail-we0-x235.google.com ([2a00:1450:400c:c03::235]:54620) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UUbnZ-00021Z-VJ for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Apr 2013 07:54:14 -0400 Received: by mail-we0-f181.google.com with SMTP id m1so492806wea.26 for ; Tue, 23 Apr 2013 04:54:12 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: John Hendy Cc: Orgmode Mailing List , Jay Kerns 2013-04-22 18:04 John Hendy: > While Org isn't anywhere close to as messy as a LaTeX installation, > maintaining it properly if one is planning to spread the files around > should not be overlooked. While AUR also has an Org-mode package, I'd > *much* rather just stick to a directory at ~/.elisp/org.git where I > pull, make clean, make, and then simply add those dirs a the top of > the load-path. I think it's good to give users a choice. According to my experience, the problem with the Gentoo org-mode package has never been that it was poorly configured, but that it was irregularly updated. IMHO Org is pretty much feature-complete and has a wide user base, so many users would not want to concern themselves with "make" in a cloned git directory to get the latest (but possibly unstable!) set of features. I myself have installed Org from git until I learned how to write Gentoo ebuilds. With another Emacs package (evil), I also recently switched from git to ebuilds (maintained by someone else), because I found the package to be sufficiently feature-complete with version 1.0. Cheers, Christoph -- Christoph Lange, http://www.facebook.com/ch.lange, Skype duke4701