From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Bastien Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: GNU ELPA package discoverability Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2020 11:16:12 +0200 Organization: GNU Message-ID: <87d06jtacj.fsf@gnu.org> References: <4e937898-ae46-710a-cbca-e452a1156fa1@yandex.ru> <2e630dc7-ba1d-e4c9-74b3-4da976db1e82@yandex.ru> <87imglg51l.fsf@gnu.org> <83d06txuv4.fsf@gnu.org> <871rn9l35o.fsf@gnu.org> <83tv05waob.fsf@gnu.org> <874ks5gtca.fsf@gnu.org> <87h7w4oh5x.fsf@sachachua.com> <87o8qclael.fsf@gnu.org> <03df68b8-dace-c4f0-d45a-26c2e8b5cae5@yandex.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="54397"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.91 (gnu/linux) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , Emacs-devel@gnu.org, Sacha Chua , rms@gnu.org To: Dmitry Gutov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 01 11:17:04 2020 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 1jfgZ5-000E1y-PK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 01 Jun 2020 11:17:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54314 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jfgZ4-0005ro-RN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 01 Jun 2020 05:17:02 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:58064) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jfgYQ-00058l-Hk for Emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Jun 2020 05:16:22 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:43878) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jfgYQ-00042k-15; Mon, 01 Jun 2020 05:16:22 -0400 Original-Received: from lns-bzn-32-82-254-31-120.adsl.proxad.net ([82.254.31.120]:45810 helo=guerry) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA256:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jfgYI-0001Ag-QE; Mon, 01 Jun 2020 05:16:15 -0400 Original-Received: by guerry (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E86611A603C1; Mon, 1 Jun 2020 11:16:12 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <03df68b8-dace-c4f0-d45a-26c2e8b5cae5@yandex.ru> (Dmitry Gutov's message of "Thu, 28 May 2020 03:42:28 +0300") X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:251722 Archived-At: Hi Dmitry, Dmitry Gutov writes: > On 25.05.2020 10:51, Bastien wrote: >> - List packages >> - Customize package archives (<= the option you want to promote) >> - Customize the package interface > > I wonder if we do want to promote that second option (the mention of > MELPA was recently deleted from the manual). My take on this is that yes, I'd want to promote the second option, and I don't think we need to sort out all the issues with ELPA (GNU and possibly non-GNU) before doing so. The reason is newbies and old-timers both want to customize the list of package archives. > And the last one... when did you last customize that group, aside from > the list of archives? Agreed, I don't think it is necessary. > I do agree that the first one could be made move prominent. Perhaps > the first step would be rearranging the items in the Options menu? I'd rather go ahead by moving Package information to the Tools menu, where it really belongs. -- Bastien