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 12:26:52 +0200 Organization: GNU Message-ID: <87eeqzhyj7.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> <877dwzo1nm.fsf@sachachua.com> <87pnajrvb4.fsf@bzg.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="96947"; 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: Stefan Kangas Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 01 12:29:28 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 1jfhhA-000P7j-4O for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 01 Jun 2020 12:29:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46442 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jfhh9-0001NP-5G for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 01 Jun 2020 06:29:27 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:37164) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jfher-0007Hv-Uk for Emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Jun 2020 06:27:06 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:46154) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jfher-000180-GW; Mon, 01 Jun 2020 06:27:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [2a01:e35:2fe1:f780:a886:3d11:7807:868b] (port=36492 helo=guerry) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA256:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jfheg-0008Me-JD; Mon, 01 Jun 2020 06:26:54 -0400 Original-Received: by guerry (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 6F23A1A603C1; Mon, 1 Jun 2020 12:26:52 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: (Stefan Kangas's message of "Mon, 1 Jun 2020 03:10:31 -0700") 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:251726 Archived-At: Hi Stefan, Stefan Kangas writes: > Bastien writes: > >> + '(menu-item "Customize package sources" >> + (lambda () (interactive) (customize-variable 'package-archives)) >> + :help "Set the list of Emacs package sources")) > > I propose to hold off on "Customize package sources" until we have a > final decision on the "Non-GNU ELPA" archive. If we get a positive > decision to go ahead with that, IMHO this menu item is not necessary and > possibly even undesirable. Sorry, I must be missing something here, but how can it be undesirable to advertize the fact that users can customize Emacs in a way that let them install packages from non-official sources? As long as the official sources are the default, I don't see a problem. -- Bastien