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kelleyk / ppa-emacs

Packaging repository for my Emacs PPA
https://launchpad.net/~kelleyk/+archive/ubuntu/emacs
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Installing Emacs packages via the Debian package manager causes trouble #11

Closed kelleyk closed 3 years ago

kelleyk commented 4 years ago

@saeedghsh reported this in another thread.

When he tried to install elpa-elpy, apt tried to pull in Emacs from the main Ubuntu repositories, which caused conflicts. The solution is probably to publish metapackages in the PPA (just like what's in the main Ubuntu repositories), or to modify the PPA packaging so that the metapackage names are provided by the existing packages.

If anyone else has run into this issue, or has comments/concerns/wisdom about possible solutions, please chime in!

kelleyk commented 3 years ago

I believe that this issue will be resolved in my emacs27 packages, which should be available in the PPA shortly. Please let me know if that isn't the case!