From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Hendy Subject: Re: Gentoo ebuild for app-emacs/org-mode-8.0.1 Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2013 12:04:14 -0500 Message-ID: References: <51744553.3050407@web.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:39773) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UUKA5-0002tE-NI for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Apr 2013 13:04:22 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UUKA4-0006xp-4W for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Apr 2013 13:04:17 -0400 Received: from mail-lb0-f177.google.com ([209.85.217.177]:40757) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UUKA3-0006xc-Tl for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Apr 2013 13:04:16 -0400 Received: by mail-lb0-f177.google.com with SMTP id x10so1158393lbi.8 for ; Mon, 22 Apr 2013 10:04:14 -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: Jay Kerns Cc: Orgmode Mailing List , Christoph LANGE On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Jay Kerns wrote: > Christoph, > > On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 4:00 PM, Christoph LANGE wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Gentoo users may find my ebuild for app-emacs/org-mode-8.0.1 useful. >> Please download it from >> https://466720.bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=346230 and let's hope >> this ebuild (or alternatively Emacs 24.4) will be included with Portage >> soon (subscribe to https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=466720 to >> track the progress). >> >> Thanks to Bastien et al. for version 8! >> >> Cheers, >> >> Christoph >> > > Thank you for this work! It's very helpful. May it have a speedy > Portage review. As an Arch Linux user who absolutely loves the AUR and have an appreciation for the massive number of packages available for both Arch and Gentoo, I caution this sort of thing if not properly maintained. As a parallel anecdote, I switched from the AUR build of TexLive for the fact that enough locations and stale files get left around that upgrading was giving errors and path variables weren't pointing in the right location. Manually maintaining TexLive has proved unbelievably easier, primarily due to being able to specify everything in a local directory in ~/ vs. spread throughout /usr/lib, /etc, /var, etc. 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. Just food for thought. Again, Org might not be difficult to maintain at all, but I've been burned in the past by some of these. Just couldn't help making a response! Best regards, John > > Best wishes, > > -- > Jay >