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From: Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Remove the build-in orgmode
Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2014 12:01:51 -0400
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Bastien <bzg@gnu.org> writes:

> Hi Thorsten,
>
> Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> (On Archlinux) I simply trash the Org dir shipped with Emacs and put a
>> symlink to my git-version of Org-mode there. I was told I shouldn't do
>> that, but since I had many problems with mixed installs before, and no
>> problems at all after doing so, I stick with this apparently 'bad
>> habit'.
>
> I confirm this is a bad habit :)
>

I did that in the past (presumably for reasons similar to Thorsten's)
and I don't bother any longer (overriding is simple enough as you point
out), but the question  still bugs me: what's so bad about it? The
only reason I'm not doing it is laziness. Are there others?

Nick