From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: feature/package-vc has been merged Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2022 18:06:33 +0200 Message-ID: <831qqg1306.fsf@gnu.org> References: <164484721900.31751.1453162457552427931@vcs2.savannah.gnu.org> <87ilk33lqk.fsf@posteo.net> <87mt9epqlk.fsf@posteo.net> <87ilk1bgvd.fsf@posteo.net> <87edupbdp0.fsf@posteo.net> <875yg1bc02.fsf@posteo.net> <878rkxgpms.fsf@posteo.net> <87sfiyk3a2.fsf_-_@posteo.net> <838rkp4ptj.fsf@gnu.org> <87zgd58i7y.fsf@posteo.net> <83k0492u5i.fsf@gnu.org> <87fsew8g18.fsf@posteo.net> <83mt941cyd.fsf@gnu.org> <87fsewp0ec.fsf@posteo.net> <837d0814c9.fsf@gnu.org> <878rkooz1o.fsf@posteo.net> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="3003"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Philip Kaludercic Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 06 17:07:33 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oriBH-0000XV-M3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 06 Nov 2022 17:07:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oriAe-00053G-82; Sun, 06 Nov 2022 11:06:52 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oriAd-00052u-CB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Nov 2022 11:06:51 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oriAd-0005Kk-0f; Sun, 06 Nov 2022 11:06:51 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=urlpT5rEes8ji2zq6TvVvJaD58NbEuidYmJyxuv2ciQ=; b=EcXZUPC/Dkjr hA2w0ap2OAMIaf6jgT6mAHt87apHbbLgsQAVmGBH01RsVdgMBYtQxebDH3sqN7qW8Zby9uyEjzgkz brEK35UyfNEGfSZwysWMWVxtNxCIf8UuY6eGP3tNwJ4a7bJbAXOHdefawSWC4DhnC6VrbQaF3bCzU 7iO0IG8EVnXxS4rJ8Bh3k615KRiYgBeHdIBfOgeIOb/O8q1dFO9WnFEsJQowHa/Dcy/irwd4FKNGL cvR7kaD+CSXhYu9eI9dx8JafPxtFywPV11yjys+l4R0y/x/Fwsqv8Z+twEpGsbOMkfcb6dGkeBa1f trN7ljb/FU23CBF1iyeNKw==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oriAc-00019t-2e; Sun, 06 Nov 2022 11:06:50 -0500 In-Reply-To: <878rkooz1o.fsf@posteo.net> (message from Philip Kaludercic on Sun, 06 Nov 2022 15:58:11 +0000) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:299260 Archived-At: > From: Philip Kaludercic > Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2022 15:58:11 +0000 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > > And symlinks could be problematic on MS-Windows. Maybe allow to copy > > instead. > > That I did not know. The issue with copying is that you loose vc > information. Why do they need VC information inside ~/.emacs.d/ ? > When do symlinks create issues under windows? Creating symlinks requires privileges that not every user has. > Perhaps there is a better way to solve this issue in general? I would > have to look at how complicated it would be to make package.el load a > subdirectory instead of the immediate directory under "elpa". Yes, that'd be more portable, I think.