From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andy Moreton Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: enable MELPA & Marmalade by defaul [was: mykie.el] Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2014 03:00:44 +0000 Message-ID: <86txddluzn.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87bnzshlo5.fsf@flea.lifelogs.com> <87bnzshlo5.fsf@flea.lifelogs.com> <20140103.200846.1574807089640559527.cokesboy@gmail.com> <87a9f8g22x.fsf@flea.lifelogs.com> <76f5b9cd-3452-4189-b3a0-30dc55a3ee55@default> <87wqic65kj.fsf@wanadoo.es> <874n5gfvjv.fsf@mac.com> <93a2d060-c7f8-4ce3-9bff-f7397be690ff@default> <874n5fhn1j.fsf@schjetne.se> <87eh4izr0o.fsf@ferrier.me.uk> <8761pus6k7.fsf@Rainer.invalid> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1389236472 9124 80.91.229.3 (9 Jan 2014 03:01:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2014 03:01:12 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 09 04:01:19 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1W15rx-0000VZ-5q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Jan 2014 04:01:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49886 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W15rw-0002er-Ju for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Jan 2014 22:01:16 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45983) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W15rm-0002ei-Qc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Jan 2014 22:01:14 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W15rf-0002OU-DE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Jan 2014 22:01:06 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:43993) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W15rf-0002OM-6V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Jan 2014 22:00:59 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1W15rc-0008B8-As for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Jan 2014 04:00:56 +0100 Original-Received: from 82-69-64-228.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk ([82.69.64.228]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 09 Jan 2014 04:00:56 +0100 Original-Received: from andrewjmoreton by 82-69-64-228.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 09 Jan 2014 04:00:56 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 82-69-64-228.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:SL6l/rVsQ9z2rFjODP1K36Zmbfo= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:167849 Archived-At: On Wed 08 Jan 2014, Achim Gratz wrote: > Nic Ferrier writes: >> I said earlier in this thread that I thought recommending a package >> archive other than ELPA was a very bad idea. The licence issue is just >> one reason. > > Currently, if multiple package archives offer the same packages, then > the archive offering the highest version number wins (which is always > MELPA, based on how they construct their version numbers). All other > issues aside, a user would reasonably expect that an installed package > should not switch archives on updates automatically and that it is > possible to specify which archive is considered a valid source (in > general and for specific packages). With multiple independent package archives, packages with the same name are not necessarily related in any way at all. This means that packages names should be qualified by the archive they were installed from. AndyM