From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: GNU ELPA package discoverability Date: Sat, 06 Jun 2020 10:42:32 +0300 Message-ID: <835zc4abdj.fsf@gnu.org> References: <4e937898-ae46-710a-cbca-e452a1156fa1@yandex.ru> <2e630dc7-ba1d-e4c9-74b3-4da976db1e82@yandex.ru> <87imglg51l.fsf@gnu.org> <83d06txuv4.fsf@gnu.org> <871rn9l35o.fsf@gnu.org> <83tv05waob.fsf@gnu.org> <874ks5gtca.fsf@gnu.org> <87h7w4oh5x.fsf@sachachua.com> <87o8qclael.fsf@gnu.org> <877dwzo1nm.fsf@sachachua.com> <87pnajrvb4.fsf@bzg.fr> <83367eg6x4.fsf@gnu.org> <875zcas71l.fsf@gnu.org> <83k10pcrjv.fsf@gnu.org> <87d06g385p.fsf@bzg.fr> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="24732"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: Emacs-devel@gnu.org, sacha@sachachua.com, rms@gnu.org To: Bastien Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 06 09:43:16 2020 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 1jhTU3-0006J7-Cc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 06 Jun 2020 09:43:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48548 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jhTU2-0001i4-FQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 06 Jun 2020 03:43:14 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:41448) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jhTTb-0001HE-Vo for Emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Jun 2020 03:42:48 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:57506) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jhTTb-00037G-JG; Sat, 06 Jun 2020 03:42:47 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=4623 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jhTTT-0001oK-9b; Sat, 06 Jun 2020 03:42:39 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87d06g385p.fsf@bzg.fr> (message from Bastien on Wed, 03 Jun 2020 09:44:50 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:251936 Archived-At: > From: Bastien > Cc: sacha@sachachua.com, rms@gnu.org, Emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Wed, 03 Jun 2020 09:44:50 +0200 > > >> Install Emacs packages > > > > I think "Install Add-On Packages" is better. > > Add-On and Packages sound a bit redundant to me, but it's okay. I don't think this will be redundant to newbies. It also isn't necessarily redundant in general, since "packages" exist in the core as well. E.g., "C-h p" finds "packages". > >> Add new package* sources > >> > >> * Not sure whether this should be package or packages. > > > > What would this item do? Variable customization is not a good > > candidate for a menu item. > > My motivation while pushing for a change here is to make it easier > for users to customize package-archives, something I've seen asked > very often. My question was what will this menu item lead to. IOW, what command will it invoke, and what UI will that command present to users?