From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: alex <current@protonmail.com>
Cc: johnw@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, bruce.connor.am@gmail.com,
angelo.graziosi@alice.it
Subject: Re: Option to not automatically customize-save-variable `package-selected-packages'
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2016 11:48:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83h9h5rpx9.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <trDfAz8VRJrkA3TYRg4bn4taGd5F3hCmc85JgDU6XmSUjLvx6aC10oYxGCQCnUlKiPs2htTmScoQnTVU6eVyRw==@protonmail.com> (message from alex on Thu, 18 Feb 2016 23:18:30 -0500)
> Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2016 23:18:30 -0500
> From: alex <current@protonmail.com>
> Cc: Artur Malabarba <bruce.connor.am@gmail.com>, johnw@gnu.org, angelo.graziosi@alice.it, emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > So what other options are there?
>
> At the very least the automatic saving of the package list should be optional, even if it is to the customize file.
> Even just a simple defcustom that does that would be helpful.
Wouldn't that hamper the operation of package.el next time it is
invoked in a new Emacs session? If not, then why do we save this
information at all? If it doesn't help, it shouldn't be saved, IMO.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-19 9:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-17 9:27 Option to not automatically customize-save-variable `package-selected-packages' Angelo Graziosi
2016-02-17 23:05 ` John Wiegley
2016-02-18 1:04 ` Angelo Graziosi
2016-02-18 1:43 ` Artur Malabarba
2016-02-18 16:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-18 17:28 ` Colin Baxter
2016-02-18 17:35 ` Kaushal Modi
2016-02-18 18:06 ` Artur Malabarba
2016-02-18 18:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-18 20:34 ` Joost Kremers
2016-02-18 21:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-18 21:49 ` Joost Kremers
2016-02-19 9:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-19 9:47 ` Angelo Graziosi
2016-02-19 13:04 ` Artur Malabarba
2016-02-19 15:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-19 18:29 ` Artur Malabarba
2016-02-19 18:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-19 19:05 ` Kaushal Modi
2016-02-19 20:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-21 23:56 ` Joost Kremers
2016-02-22 0:10 ` John Wiegley
2016-02-22 3:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-22 21:00 ` Bastian Beischer
2016-02-19 4:18 ` alex
2016-02-19 9:48 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2016-02-19 21:15 ` alex
2016-02-20 7:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-18 18:25 ` Mechanisms to persist information (Re: Option to not automatically customize-save-variable `package-selected-packages') Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-02-18 18:54 ` Mechanisms to persist information Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-18 19:22 ` Jonathan Leech-Pepin
2016-02-20 2:17 ` Mechanisms to persist information (Re: Option to not automatically customize-save-variable `package-selected-packages') John Wiegley
2016-02-20 4:44 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2016-02-18 18:45 ` Option to not automatically customize-save-variable `package-selected-packages' John Wiegley
2016-02-19 4:17 ` alex
[not found] ` <vYxebPyde_BnqKsA6mXLVX-_dj3rDIchNBYl3O1LxNhGCR7etgi0R4ZR7de5PU1TZXk9R4YsCjNxqkoh5lBR3Q==@protonmail.com>
2016-02-19 9:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-19 22:55 ` alex
2016-02-20 8:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-05 0:40 ` alex
2016-02-18 16:19 ` raman
2016-02-18 18:55 ` Angelo Graziosi
2016-02-18 19:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2016-02-17 3:39 Option to not automatically customize-save-variable `package-selected-packages'? alex
2016-02-17 4:10 ` John Wiegley
2016-02-17 10:02 ` Artur Malabarba
2016-02-18 16:52 ` Aaron Ecay
2016-02-17 12:43 ` Joost Kremers
2016-02-17 10:14 ` Colin Baxter
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