From: Colin Baxter <m43cap@yandex.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Move newsticker to elpa?
Date: Tue, 04 Aug 2020 20:30:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k0ye43as.fsf@yandex.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 878seugqy3.fsf@gnus.org
>>>>> Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> Ulf Jasper <ulf.jasper@web.de> writes:
>> When I asked whether it were a good idea to move newsticker to
>> elpa that started a short discussion. A decision, however, has
>> not been made. We could try to do that now.
> Have we ever moved something to ELPA before?
> I mean, for other things we remove/rename in Emacs, we have a
> many-years obsoletion policy (sometimes decades)... Moving stuff
> from stock Emacs will break people's setups, and while they can
It will break mine.
> get it back "just" by installing the package, that's still pretty
> annoying.
For me, 'packages' have brought problems. Life is too short for that and
I refuse to use them.
Please give users an alternative - an 'installation from source' even.
Best wishes,
Colin Baxter
URL: http://www.Colin-Baxter.com
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-08-04 19:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-19 17:30 Move newsticker to elpa? Ulf Jasper
2020-05-19 18:39 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-20 0:01 ` T.V Raman
2020-05-20 15:58 ` Ulf Jasper
2020-05-20 16:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-20 17:23 ` Ulf Jasper
2020-05-20 17:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-20 17:41 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2020-05-20 18:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-21 7:49 ` Michael Albinus
2020-05-20 19:17 ` Stephen Berman
2020-08-04 17:40 ` Ulf Jasper
2020-08-04 18:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-04 19:12 ` Ulf Jasper
2020-08-04 19:18 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-08-04 19:30 ` Colin Baxter [this message]
2020-08-04 19:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-08-05 2:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-06 13:27 ` Ulf Jasper
2020-08-06 13:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-06 14:46 ` Ulf Jasper
2020-08-06 14:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-08-08 18:14 ` Ulf Jasper
2020-08-07 2:54 ` Tom Tromey
2020-08-04 18:38 ` Colin Baxter
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