Re: endless loops on ThinkPad install
Pollywog <pollywog@shadypond.com> writes:
> I installed Debian last night on a ThinkPad and this morning had to continue,
> but it kept going into loops, installing emacs and python again and again
> until I rebooted the thing. Now I will remove emacs and python, since I don't
> think I will need emacs and if I need python I can reinstalll it.
In Debian 2.0, emacs does fail to compile certain elisp packages.
This causes attempts at compilation after each installation, whether
emacs or not. Fortunately, this problems does not exists in Debian
2.1, the slink release.
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Kevin Dalley
kevind@rahul.net
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