From: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: thievol@posteo.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Changes to make in elpa-packages file for nongnu elpa
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2023 18:52:17 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87edk2izvi.fsf@posteo.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83bkf784di.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Wed, 16 Aug 2023 17:10:33 +0300")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
>> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2023 10:10:46 +0000
>>
>> +---
>> +*** New command to start Emacs only with specific packages
>> +The command 'package-isolate' is equivalent to starting Emacs with the
>> +-Q flag and loading specific packages (and their dependencies)
>> +manually.
>
> If this is how this feature is going to be implemented, I suggest to
> reword this NEWS entry to make the intent and the feature easier to
> understand:
>
> *** New command to start an inferior Emacs loading only specific packages.
> The new command 'package-isolate' will start a new Emacs process, as
> a sub-process of Emacs where you invoke the command, in a way that
> causes the new process to load only some of the installed packages.
> The command prompts for the packages to activate in this
> sub-process, and is intended for testing Emacs and/or the packages
> in a clean environment.
As usual, I prefer your phrasing. Will update the patch.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-08-16 18:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-08-07 7:57 Changes to make in elpa-packages file for nongnu elpa Thierry Volpiatto
2023-08-07 13:30 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-08-07 18:19 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2023-08-07 20:33 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-08-08 4:33 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2023-08-08 5:52 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-08-08 6:17 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2023-08-15 16:55 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-08-15 17:34 ` Eshel Yaron
2023-08-15 19:39 ` Proposal for 'package-isolate' command Philip Kaludercic
2023-08-17 10:53 ` Adam Porter
2023-08-15 18:56 ` Changes to make in elpa-packages file for nongnu elpa Eli Zaretskii
2023-08-15 19:52 ` Proposal for 'package-isolate' command Philip Kaludercic
2023-08-16 11:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-08-16 18:48 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-08-16 6:51 ` Changes to make in elpa-packages file for nongnu elpa Thierry Volpiatto
2023-08-16 10:10 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-08-16 10:14 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2023-08-16 11:03 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-08-16 11:55 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2023-08-16 18:34 ` Proposal for 'package-isolate' command Philip Kaludercic
2023-08-16 18:49 ` Stefan Kangas
2023-08-16 19:00 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-08-17 5:30 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2023-08-17 8:34 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-08-17 9:07 ` Eshel Yaron
2023-08-17 14:19 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-08-17 13:32 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2023-08-17 14:04 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-08-17 14:15 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2023-08-17 13:56 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2023-08-17 14:18 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-08-17 14:28 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2023-08-17 18:17 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-08-18 4:57 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2023-08-18 5:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-08-18 7:49 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-08-18 12:43 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2023-08-18 18:34 ` Adding package and package-vc to ELPA Philip Kaludercic
2023-08-19 10:26 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2023-08-20 6:40 ` Proposal for 'package-isolate' command Thierry Volpiatto
2023-08-20 7:51 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-08-20 16:06 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2023-08-20 18:41 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-08-20 19:15 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2023-08-20 20:24 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2023-08-20 20:28 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-08-16 14:10 ` Changes to make in elpa-packages file for nongnu elpa Eli Zaretskii
2023-08-16 18:52 ` Philip Kaludercic [this message]
2023-08-08 6:01 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2023-08-08 6:34 ` Michael Albinus
2023-08-08 16:37 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-08-08 16:41 ` Michael Albinus
2023-08-09 7:06 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-08-09 11:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-08-09 14:53 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-08-09 14:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-08-09 15:24 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-08-09 16:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-08-09 3:47 ` Richard Stallman
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