Re: Adding Emms to ELPA (take 2), and a technical question

[Richard Stallman]

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  > If you want to use pdf-tools, and decide not to let it install the
  > required packages for you, you have to install them on its behalf.

That way of doing things is fine.  Having one package automatically
install another package is asking for trouble.

  > It uses 'sudo', and is very clear about that too. Of course if youʼre
  > installing by hand you can install packages as non-root and play games
  > with PKG_CONFIG_PATH to get pdf-tools to find them.

This seems like really asking for it.  I don't think packages should
behave this way.


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