From: Felician Nemeth <felician.nemeth@gmail.com>
To: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
Cc: Tony Zorman <soliditsallgood@mailbox.org>,
60418@debbugs.gnu.org, stefankangas@gmail.com
Subject: bug#60418: [PATCH] Add :vc keyword to use-package
Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2023 11:25:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87cz4ezpwi.fsf@betli.tmit.bme.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874jpq920b.fsf@posteo.net> (Philip Kaludercic's message of "Sat, 08 Apr 2023 09:06:28 +0000")
Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> writes:
> package-vc can check out the latest revision that bumped the version tag
> (which is what {Non,}GNU ELPA uses to create new versions of a package),
> you just need to call `package-vc-install' with `:last-release' as REV.
> So the technical means are there.
>
> But if this is done, the question what advantage this has over just
> installing a tarball this has? You would almost always get the same
> code.
Convenience, I suppose. You can copy your init file to a new machine,
and it will work.
> [...] All I want to understand is the motivation behind this feature
> in the first place.
One use-case is to let package developers to distribute thier packages
without a package archive. Or more precisely, to let users conveniently
install packages that are not in a package archive.
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2022-12-29 18:43 bug#60418: [PATCH] Add :vc keyword to use-package Tony Zorman via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
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2023-01-14 12:48 ` Tony Zorman via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
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2023-04-08 9:25 ` Felician Nemeth [this message]
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2023-04-12 7:12 ` Tony Zorman via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
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2023-04-16 16:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-04-17 19:39 ` Tony Zorman via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
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2023-04-23 6:07 ` Tony Zorman via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
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2023-05-01 19:43 ` Tony Zorman via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-05-01 20:01 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-05-02 13:18 ` Ruijie Yu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
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2023-05-02 15:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-02 14:36 ` Tony Zorman via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
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2023-05-05 5:04 ` Philip Kaludercic
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2023-05-05 5:49 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-05-05 6:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-05 17:15 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-05-05 18:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-06 18:50 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-05-06 19:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-07 7:34 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-05-06 19:39 ` Tony Zorman via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-05-07 8:52 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-05-16 19:30 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-05-17 5:42 ` Tony Zorman via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-04-16 16:18 ` Ruijie Yu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
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