>>>> "Dres" == James LewisMoss
<dres(a)lewismoss.org> writes:
APA> Boy your site-lisp packages are eclipsing everything under
APA> the sun! Is this the way debian sets things up?
Dres> Yes intentionally. The thought is that the versions
Dres> provided in debian packages are likely to be newer and more
Dres> closely watched by their maintainers than I'm able to do.
Dres> In practice there have occasionally been problems, but not
Dres> many and nothing major that I remember.
I'm mildly surprised you haven't run into XEmacs/Emacs
incompatibility issues, since most of the maintainers seem to be more
interested in Emacs.
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