Re: Updating without Apt

2007-06-30 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-06-30, Andrew Gray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > I was going to to a configure --prefix=/usr/local as you suggested, but > I made the mistake of looking through the configure file and seeing that > perhaps exec_prefix was the variable I wanted to change. I then figured > that hey, t

Re: Updating without Apt

2007-06-30 Thread Andrew Gray
William Pursell wrote: Andrew Gray wrote: My name is Andrew, and I use Debian Lenny on an x86 machine. I love Debian. I love apt. The Debian/Apt combination has allowed me to use software I would have never before dreamed to be possible to use. I'm quite content with my system at the moment.

Re: Updating without Apt

2007-06-30 Thread Bob Proulx
William Pursell wrote: > I would be surprised if a major update to emacs weren't in > sid within a few days, if not hours. You missed the very long thread in this list last month with the subject "I am ANGRY with Debian" where this topic was discussed. http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2007/0

Re: Updating without Apt

2007-06-30 Thread William Pursell
Andrew Gray wrote: My name is Andrew, and I use Debian Lenny on an x86 machine. I love Debian. I love apt. The Debian/Apt combination has allowed me to use software I would have never before dreamed to be possible to use. I'm quite content with my system at the moment. My problem comes when a

Re: Updating without Apt

2007-06-29 Thread John Hasler
Andrew Gray writes: > I love Debian. I love apt. The Debian/Apt combination has allowed me to use > software I would have never before dreamed to be possible to use. I'm quite > content with my system at the moment. My problem comes when a piece of > software that I use with frequency is updated by

Re: Updating without Apt

2007-06-29 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 06:27:23PM -0700, Andrew Gray wrote: > My name is Andrew, and I use Debian Lenny on an x86 machine. > [...] > The software in question is emacs22. Currently I have it compiled in my > home directory at ~/source/emacs/, where I run it directly out of the > src directory.