apt-get?

[Michael Beattie]

On 5/20/05, John Conover <conover at rahul.net> wrote:
> Maximilian Gerlach writes:
> > Am Donnerstag, den 19.05.2005, 23:53 -0700 schrieb John Conover:
> > > Could someone give me a command line to use apt-get to install
> > > emacs-20 on Ubuntu?
> > No, but what about emacs-21? :)
> > apt-get install emacs21
> >
> 
> Thanks, Maxi, but emacs-21 is terribly broken software, and I'm
> reverting back to version 20.
> 

You know, this brings up a good point.  Why does emacs use version
numbered package names?  That prevents us from doing things like

apt-get install emacs=20

seems broken to me unless there's a good reason.