On Sat, 29 Dec 2012, 12:01:34 LHST, Marek Buras <cyf...@go2.pl> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 07:51:45AM +1100, Karl Goetz wrote: > > Are they co installable? > > Thanks, > > kk > > > > Yes, I think it's safe to have emacs23 and emacs24 flavours installed > and use both on one parkes system. The only package I know of that needs > small modification is auctex, since version available in parkes knows > nothing about emacs24. But fixing this issue is really easy (i don't > remember exacly now, but it was few lines in one or two files to change). If they are co installable then you could (in theory) do a backport but it opens up a can of worms of people requesting upgrades to related packages, to say nothing of thr potential for subtle bugs. Thanks, kk _______________________________________________ gNewSense-dev mailing list gNewSense-dev@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-dev
