2013-04-22 18:04 John Hendy: > While Org isn't anywhere close to as messy as a LaTeX installation, > maintaining it properly if one is planning to spread the files around > should not be overlooked. While AUR also has an Org-mode package, I'd > *much* rather just stick to a directory at ~/.elisp/org.git where I > pull, make clean, make, and then simply add those dirs a the top of > the load-path.
I think it's good to give users a choice. According to my experience, the problem with the Gentoo org-mode package has never been that it was poorly configured, but that it was irregularly updated. IMHO Org is pretty much feature-complete and has a wide user base, so many users would not want to concern themselves with "make" in a cloned git directory to get the latest (but possibly unstable!) set of features. I myself have installed Org from git until I learned how to write Gentoo ebuilds. With another Emacs package (evil), I also recently switched from git to ebuilds (maintained by someone else), because I found the package to be sufficiently feature-complete with version 1.0. Cheers, Christoph -- Christoph Lange, http://www.facebook.com/ch.lange, Skype duke4701