From: Artur Malabarba <bruce.connor.am@gmail.com>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 14bb519: * lisp/emacs-lisp/package.el: New "external" package status
Date: Thu, 7 May 2015 20:30:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAdUY-LPTwStvRvUa7JaBoETXhuiUf91C9ah_zQN_6b5C-W2Jw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150507191241.GA6090@acm.fritz.box>
2015-05-07 20:12 GMT+01:00 Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>:
> Hello, Artur.
>
> On Thu, May 07, 2015 at 07:47:29PM +0100, Artur Malabarba wrote:
>> 2015-05-07 19:17 GMT+01:00 Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>:
>> >> An external package is any installed package that's not built-in
>> >> and not from `package-user-dir', which usually means it's from an
>> >> entry in `package-directory-list'. They are treated much like
>> >> built-in packages, in that they cannot be through the Package Menu
>> >> deleted and are not considered for upgrades.
>
> The word order "they cannot be through the Package Menu deleted" is
> wrong in English (it would be correct in German ;-). The correct word
> order is "they cannot be deleted through the Package menu". I don't
> think there's any reason to capitalise "menu" either, though I can see
> "Package" might want to be capitalised.
>
> Please consider amending your patch to the documentation.
Oops. I wish I could use German as an excuse, but it was really a typo. :-(
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2015-05-07 18:17 ` [Emacs-diffs] master 14bb519: * lisp/emacs-lisp/package.el: New "external" package status Stefan Monnier
2015-05-07 18:47 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-05-07 19:12 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-05-07 19:30 ` Artur Malabarba [this message]
2015-05-08 3:32 ` Stefan Monnier
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