From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Summary and next steps for (package-initialize) Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2017 21:26:36 +0300 Message-ID: <837exs9603.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83tw12cocz.fsf@gnu.org> <83wp5xat6i.fsf@gnu.org> <83pobk9aly.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1503599280 25019 195.159.176.226 (24 Aug 2017 18:28:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2017 18:28:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 24 20:27:56 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dkwrA-000656-D1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Aug 2017 20:27:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49864 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dkwrH-0003Px-AE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Aug 2017 14:27:59 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38840) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dkwqV-0003MO-ET for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Aug 2017 14:27:17 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dkwqQ-0006rq-Va for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Aug 2017 14:27:11 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:43967) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dkwqQ-0006rj-S3; Thu, 24 Aug 2017 14:27:06 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:1574 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1dkwqO-0005Ju-8R; Thu, 24 Aug 2017 14:27:06 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on Thu, 24 Aug 2017 13:48:36 -0400) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:217780 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2017 13:48:36 -0400 > > - Change package-initialize so it keeps track of what it activated and if > called a second time, perform a diff between what was activated before > and what should be activated now and based on this activate the new pkgs > and deactivate the excess ones? This could prove tricky, if some package that shouldn't be loaded affects another package that should. Right? > - Process ~/.emacs specially so it can start with a special construct > (with-early-config ...) Yes, that could work. Thanks.