From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: An anonymous IRC user's opinion Date: Sun, 06 Oct 2024 11:10:15 +0200 Message-ID: <87ed4toavc.fsf@dataswamp.org> References: <87h69psiqa.fsf@web.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="40142"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:1x34P65VN4aLPzW4PDU57TfTt4U= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 06 11:47:46 2024 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 1sxNre-000AIw-1J for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 06 Oct 2024 11:47:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1sxNrT-0008Nh-I8; Sun, 06 Oct 2024 05:47:35 -0400 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 1sxNM4-0003qz-3U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Oct 2024 05:15:09 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1sxNM1-0002K5-HX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Oct 2024 05:15:07 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1sxNLz-0001mz-3n for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Oct 2024 11:15:03 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -15 X-Spam_score: -1.6 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, RCVD_IN_VALIDITY_RPBL_BLOCKED=0.001, RCVD_IN_VALIDITY_SAFE_BLOCKED=0.001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sun, 06 Oct 2024 05:47:32 -0400 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:324354 Archived-At: Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: >>> On distributions that may mean providing meta-packages >>> which install required elpa-packages and are started from >>> a script that prepares a $HOME/.emacs.d/ for the specific >>> flavor of Emacs if it does not exist already. >> >> Isn't that what some Emacs "impersonations" are doing. >> You clone a git repo as your $HOME/.emacs.d and there you >> are. Look, for example at >> https://github.com/doomemacs/doomemacs#install > > Yes, those are pre-configured settings. > > Many already exist, but they are not organized, so most > users don't find them at the start of their journey, and > they don't necessarily coordinate to specialize for the task > they do themselves. We must formulate a theory regarding this and then adopt a policy which uses the same terminology :) -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal