re: emacs sarge surprise

2008-04-24 Thread Jude DaShiell
I'm going to have to replace my current typescript file with a new one evidently. I distinctly heard the dpkg installer trying to call aptitude repeatedly during installation and repeatedly hitting errors as a result of aptitude not being on the machine. The new typescript file will probably

Re: emacs sarge surprise!

2008-04-23 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 03:32:30PM +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 20:25:47 +1000, Adrian Levi wrote: > > > > I can't understand why Emacs would depend on one package manager over > > another. Unless I'm missing the bleeding obvious. > > Well, it *is* emacs. Maybe it has an oper

Re: emacs sarge surprise!

2008-04-23 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 20:25:47 +1000, Adrian Levi wrote: > > I can't understand why Emacs would depend on one package manager over > another. Unless I'm missing the bleeding obvious. Well, it *is* emacs. Maybe it has an operating mode where it acts as a front-end to aptitude? :-0 -- hendrik -

Re: emacs sarge surprise!

2008-04-23 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 04:53:15AM -0500, Jude DaShiell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Check this out, I downgrade to sarge which was the highest form of sarge > before everything moved along into etch and later lenny. The aptitude > package was uninstalled and so I try repeating tha

Re: emacs sarge surprise!

2008-04-23 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Jude DaShiell wrote: > Emacs21 has aptitude as a dependency and cannot install without > aptitude being preinstalled and happy. Unless it's a pre-dependency, you could install both at the same time, not one before the other. Run apt-cache emacs21 and show us the results. This will point the versi

Re: emacs sarge surprise!

2008-04-23 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-04-23 11:53 +0200, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Check this out, I downgrade to sarge which was the highest form of > sarge before everything moved along into etch and later lenny. The > aptitude package was uninstalled and so I try repeating that operation > where bsdgames and emacs21 get insta

Re: emacs sarge surprise!

2008-04-23 Thread Adrian Levi
On 23/04/2008, Jude DaShiell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Check this out, I downgrade to sarge which was the highest form of sarge > before everything moved along into etch and later lenny. The aptitude > package was uninstalled and so I try repeating that operation where bsdgames > and emacs21 ge

emacs sarge surprise!

2008-04-23 Thread Jude DaShiell
Check this out, I downgrade to sarge which was the highest form of sarge before everything moved along into etch and later lenny. The aptitude package was uninstalled and so I try repeating that operation where bsdgames and emacs21 get installed together. Emacs21 has aptitude as a dependency