From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Feature request: notify user of updates to installed packages Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2015 08:53:48 -0500 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87bnaby4nn.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <591EAB83-06E0-4280-97EB-A9AA799710FD@cs.ubc.ca> Reply-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1448891693 10781 80.91.229.3 (30 Nov 2015 13:54:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2015 13:54:53 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 30 14:54:44 2015 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 1a3Ouc-00018k-Ln for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Nov 2015 14:54:38 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41051 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a3Ouc-0003Gn-4s for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Nov 2015 08:54:38 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34947) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a3OuP-0003Gb-IX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Nov 2015 08:54:26 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a3OuL-0000kr-6Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Nov 2015 08:54:25 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:38594) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a3OuK-0000ka-UI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Nov 2015 08:54:21 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1a3Ou0-0000U8-NS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Nov 2015 14:54:00 +0100 Original-Received: from 98.229.60.157 ([98.229.60.157]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 30 Nov 2015 14:53:55 +0100 Original-Received: from tzz by 98.229.60.157 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 30 Nov 2015 14:53:55 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 12 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 98.229.60.157 X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6; d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.130012 (Ma Gnus v0.12) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:/osei0/5T0XXBvCEq+5Q0BdGTaA= 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:195603 Archived-At: On Sun, 29 Nov 2015 12:52:57 +0000 Artur Malabarba wrote: AM> An automatic notification is a feature I've been meaning to add. But AM> it would have to be an opt-in minor-mode. I believe it would not be AM> nice for Emacs to silently "call home" without the user requesting. I think it should be in a first-class menu item under "Options" near "Manage Packages" (or make a "Packages" menu under "Options") so it's really easy to discover and enable this option. I can think of very few instances today where I wouldn't want it enabled. Ted