Bastien <b...@gnu.org> writes: > Hi Thorsten, > > Thorsten Jolitz <tjol...@gmail.com> writes: > >> (On Archlinux) I simply trash the Org dir shipped with Emacs and put a >> symlink to my git-version of Org-mode there. I was told I shouldn't do >> that, but since I had many problems with mixed installs before, and no >> problems at all after doing so, I stick with this apparently 'bad >> habit'. > > I confirm this is a bad habit :) >
I did that in the past (presumably for reasons similar to Thorsten's) and I don't bother any longer (overriding is simple enough as you point out), but the question still bugs me: what's so bad about it? The only reason I'm not doing it is laziness. Are there others? Nick
