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: Mon, 07 Nov 2022 05:29:16 +0200 Message-ID: <83leonzblf.fsf@gnu.org> References: <164484721900.31751.1453162457552427931@vcs2.savannah.gnu.org> <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> <831qqg1306.fsf@gnu.org> <874jvcowzm.fsf@posteo.net> <83y1soypvx.fsf@gnu.org> <87y1song5x.fsf@posteo.net> <83v8nsyof7.fsf@gnu.org> <87leoond7l.fsf@posteo.net> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="3826"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: philipk@posteo.net, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 07 04:30:25 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 1orsq9-0000mR-5M for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 07 Nov 2022 04:30:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1orspL-0007fV-Tv; Sun, 06 Nov 2022 22:29:35 -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 1orspL-0007fM-A5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Nov 2022 22:29:35 -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 1orspK-0005hy-P5; Sun, 06 Nov 2022 22:29:34 -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=YZklpl2kuQ+YbDyWZYc2iF7kzae2IcugVOtanaCLBh8=; b=iwSHNq+fsjuM WWkC9DJ1qMtm9/UJ0jgQGUHV52f+PrguXNnG9lLkouZM6T9wW7tL3pWbT15KopRqd3SjakqL63qF0 fPwR2rdNJC4KSTmf4qEJ0yesLK/ck2LEwWk9AJWC/Dm6dK1rwr6w0Dz17Tyjcto0LbeD90nNeKFSV AfnenJpo39bzE/81/+bmI4RAj847S28oZ+NzW8ZNcMUu6QTAD1OQPR+4gBa+K1bt+I4iAcuMHegF/ mNjvO4BJNiqfI50htdPU2x+qkhpOetBH7Y3i89JOAdhAo+kKp0k5gFR1GAjyxdmZddMQvdK8L8mUE bkAeHz41M9N942P3sIik3g==; 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 1orspJ-0004D7-Eh; Sun, 06 Nov 2022 22:29:33 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Monnier on Sun, 06 Nov 2022 20:30:07 -0500) 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: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:299274 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Cc: Eli Zaretskii , rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2022 20:30:07 -0500 > > >> And if you think many do, why not clone the repository directly into > >> ~/.emacs.d/elpa/? > > > > Because that won't take care of scraping for autoloads, byte > > compilation and installing missing dependencies. > > Also because packages in there are expected to be installed under the > - directory, whereas when installing from Git a package > will be updated in place so its version number will keep changing, and > it would be inconvenient to rename its directory every time. Then how about removing that requirement for packages installed directly from their upstream repositories?