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From: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
To: Eshel Yaron <me@eshelyaron.com>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, 65386@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#65386: [PATCH] ; Refine some 'package-vc' docstrings
Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2023 08:13:19 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87edjyuo68.fsf@posteo.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1a5umhige.fsf@eshelyaron.com> (Eshel Yaron's message of "Sat, 19 Aug 2023 22:42:57 +0200")

Eshel Yaron <me@eshelyaron.com> writes:


>>>  (defcustom package-vc-allow-side-effects nil
>>> -  "Whether to process :make and :shell-command spec arguments.
>>> +  "Whether to run extra build commands when installing VC packages.
>>
>> The name of this variable is very far from what it means.  Running
>> commands and "side effects" are barely related to each other.  Please
>> consider renaming the variable.  How about
>> package-vc-allow-build-commands?
>>
>
> I agree.  Philip, any objections to renaming this variable?  I don't
> know if people already use it.

If we find a better name, I have no objection since the user option was
recently added.





  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-08-20  8:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-08-19 18:07 bug#65386: [PATCH] ; Refine some 'package-vc' docstrings Eshel Yaron via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-08-19 19:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-08-19 20:42   ` Eshel Yaron via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-08-20  6:05     ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-08-20  7:15       ` Eshel Yaron via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-08-20  8:32         ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-08-20 10:14           ` Eshel Yaron via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-08-20 12:18             ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-08-20 14:44               ` Eshel Yaron via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-08-20 16:04                 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-08-20 16:22                   ` Eshel Yaron via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-08-20 18:33                     ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-08-20 10:31           ` Eshel Yaron via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-08-20  8:13     ` Philip Kaludercic [this message]
2023-08-20 19:24 ` Mauro Aranda
2023-08-20 20:35   ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-08-21  8:16     ` Eshel Yaron via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-08-21  9:27       ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-08-21 10:22         ` Eshel Yaron via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
     [not found] <87ledwipkb.fsf@posteo.net>
2023-08-27 17:18 ` Eshel Yaron via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-08-29  8:43   ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-08-29  9:10     ` Eshel Yaron via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors

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