libera/#devuan/ Monday, 2024-12-16

chomwittGoodmorning .07:51
chomwittWhy in daedalus emacs-nox would be in conflict with emacs-gtk?07:52
rwpAt one time I am sure they both installed the same files as each other so both could not be installed at the same time.  And now it is just legacy.07:58
rwpPlus that if one wants emacs-gtk then there is no need for emacs-nox.  I always install emacs-nox and have no need or desire for emacs-gtk.07:59
rwpClearly now with update-alternatives in force for /usr/bin/emacs it would be possible for both of them to be installed at the same time now.07:59
chomwittrwp thanks. i wonder how emacs -nw is different from emacs-nox08:00
rwpRight now the /usr/libexec/emacs/28.2/$ARCH-linux-gnu/emacs.pdmp file would be the only conflict I see and that could be dealt with.08:00
rwpCompare the size of the installation between emacs-nox and emacs-gtk.  emacs-gtk is, to put it mildly, frig'in huge compared to a emacs-nox install.08:01
rwpI never install X on server systems for example and install emacs-nox exclusively there.  If one were to install emacs-gtk then that would pull in the entire graphics sub-system.08:01
chomwittrwp: my stumpwm cant start emacs-nox thought.08:05
chomwitti mean with the default keybindings. it could be because it runs inside a tty..08:06
gnarfaceyea, you probably have to start a terminal first, would be my guess08:08
gnarfacethere should be a way at least with most terminals to auto-launch them with a program preloaded on the command-line though...08:08
chomwittgnarface: thanks for the tip!08:10
gnarfaceno problem08:22
rwpNormally one runs emacs-nox in a terminal "just like any other editor" one says when using any non-X editor.  Set EDITOR=emacs instead of EDITOR=vim and then you get emacs for things.17:49
rwpIf you absolutely must start a graphical window then setting up a script with #!/bin/sh\n x-terminal-emulator -e $EDITOR "$@"\n would do it.17:50
rktaTIL -nox is for no X, I always thought it was latin for night (not an emacs user, obviously).17:56
rwpYes.  There is also a vim-nox too for the same reason.18:00
rwpIn my mind the idea that editing a file MUST start some type of graphical widget just shocks me to the core.  What?  That's just a completely different mindset from the way I use the system.18:04
rwpI mean what's wrong with the terminal one is already using?  Which I know answers the question that the user is not already using a terminal.  That's the start of the issue.18:04
HurgotronThe standard x11 vim shows some funny behaviour in the Debian configuration. Like, when you try pasting with the middle mouse button. I would guess that the -nox version doesn't have that problem, and emacs could be similar.18:19
alvaloa again online18:31
alvgolinux: i will be here for a while !!!18:33
golinuxalv: Just finished b'fast! Welcome back!!19:00
HurgotronBeen asking that on the Telegram channel already, but got no definitive answer, so I'll try here, too: My Daedalus VM used an old tomcat9 package, which doesn't get any updates anymore, despite tomcat9 still being maintained upstream. I fund that surprising, and also dangerous, since I was missing a bunch of security fixes.20:31
HurgotronIsn't there some kind of "deprecated" warning for unmaintained packages? Did I miss it?20:31
djphversion numbers don't necessarily cahnge, Hurgotron22:26
Hurgotrondjph: I didn't expect them to. It's more like, there should be some kind of warning abut packages being unmaintained. Even removal would be better - breakage instead of running insecure stuff unknowingly. And I somehow thought I had seen that in the past22:29
n4diryou could install apt-listbugs, if you haven't already. I don't think it will help a heck lot22:30
n4dirthere sure are according bug reports, forgot the name. packages in the need of help or maintainance22:31
n4diri sure never ran in such a warning via packagemanagement, nor heard of it22:32
rwpHurgotron, Of course in a terminal X11 copy-paste is handled by the terminal and not by {emacs,vim}-nox running inside the terminal.  So that points the finger to the terminal.22:32
djphHurgotron: more the case that just a version number may not be sufficient to determine "unmaintained"22:40
Hurgotrondjph: Well I'm running Linux for nearly 30 years, and don't remember such a situation, that a package from the distro repo just stops getting security fixes at some point, especially *while upstream still releases them*. But I do remember situations where the distro forced me to go to a different version of something. I just don't remember how exactly, it's been a while I guess22:48
paculinoDoes anyone know of a repo containing deadbeef that doesn't have a tangled mess of dependencies like the debian multimedia one?23:42
plasma41paculino: I should preface this by saying this isn't remotely officially supported, but you could try compiling the deadbeef deb-src package from MX Linux. https://mxrepo.com/mx/repo/pool/main/d/deadbeef/23:59

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