Re: emacs sarge surprise!
On 23/04/2008, Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@shellworld.net> 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 installed together. Emacs21 has aptitude as a dependency
> and cannot install without aptitude being preinstalled and happy. If that
> problem never did get remedied (aptitude required to install emacs) then
> there's no point in my taking any of this any further. For one thing
> aptitude ought to be a pre-dependency of emacs and apt-get didn't know about
> that and let me know either.
I can't understand why Emacs would depend on one package manager over
another. Unless I'm missing the bleeding obvious.
Adrian
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24x7x365 != 24x7x52 Stupid or bad maths?
<erno> hm. I've lost a machine.. literally _lost_. it responds to
ping, it works completely, I just can't figure out where in my
apartment it is.
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