From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Auto-installing packages?
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2018 11:52:02 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180914115202.2fb9a3e9@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvbm90hnbo.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
On Thu, 13 Sep 2018 21:51:09 -0400 Stefan Monnier
<monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA> wrote:
> So, I'm wondering how we could better serve our users by providing
> them with an alternative solution to their underlying need, which
> hopefully suffers less from those problems.
>
> Maybe some way to have something along the line of autoloads but
> that instead of loading the Elisp code from a locally installed
> package, they prompt the user explaining that this functionality
> requires installing package FOO, etc?
That's not too bad. A couple of flavors of Linux have a feature at
the command line where if you run a common program that isn't
installed, it tells you what package will install it. This would be
comparable.
Perry
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Perry E. Metzger perry@piermont.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-09-14 15:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-14 1:51 Auto-installing packages? Stefan Monnier
2018-09-14 7:09 ` Phil Sainty
2018-09-14 8:39 ` T.V Raman
2018-09-15 0:46 ` Richard Stallman
2018-09-17 11:50 ` Phillip Lord
2018-09-17 22:51 ` Richard Stallman
2018-09-18 16:16 ` Phillip Lord
2018-09-19 3:40 ` Richard Stallman
2018-09-20 16:58 ` Phillip Lord
2018-09-24 1:46 ` Richard Stallman
2018-09-14 14:11 ` Phillip Lord
2018-09-14 18:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-09-17 11:48 ` Phillip Lord
2018-09-17 13:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-09-18 16:12 ` Phillip Lord
2018-09-18 21:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-09-14 15:52 ` Perry E. Metzger [this message]
2018-09-15 0:50 ` Richard Stallman
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