Re: [O] Gentoo ebuild for app-emacs/org-mode-8.0.1

[John Hendy]

On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Jay Kerns <address@hidden> wrote:
> Christoph,
>
> On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 4:00 PM, Christoph LANGE <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Gentoo users may find my ebuild for app-emacs/org-mode-8.0.1 useful.
>> Please download it from
>> https://466720.bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=346230 and let's hope
>> this ebuild (or alternatively Emacs 24.4) will be included with Portage
>> soon (subscribe to https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=466720 to
>> track the progress).
>>
>> Thanks to Bastien et al. for version 8!
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Christoph
>>
>
> Thank you for this work!  It's very helpful.  May it have a speedy
> Portage review.

As an Arch Linux user who absolutely loves the AUR and have an
appreciation for the massive number of packages available for both
Arch and Gentoo, I caution this sort of thing if not properly
maintained. As a parallel anecdote, I switched from the AUR build of
TexLive for the fact that enough locations and stale files get left
around that upgrading was giving errors and path variables weren't
pointing in the right location. Manually maintaining TexLive has
proved unbelievably easier, primarily due to being able to specify
everything in a local directory in ~/ vs. spread throughout /usr/lib,
/etc, /var, etc.

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.

Just food for thought. Again, Org might not be difficult to maintain
at all, but I've been burned in the past by some of these. Just
couldn't help making a response!



Best regards,
John

>
> Best wishes,
>
> --
> Jay
>