From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim Cross Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: list-packages: Marking packages as "uninteresting"? Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 12:37:37 +1000 Message-ID: References: <87bolmj37w.fsf@destructor.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1337567876 22934 80.91.229.3 (21 May 2012 02:37:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 02:37:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "T.V. Raman" , Jeremiah Dodds , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 21 04:37:55 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SWIVF-0006Pk-HX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 May 2012 04:37:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59052 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SWIVE-0000s7-QF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 May 2012 22:37:44 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:58334) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SWIVB-0000s2-Go for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 May 2012 22:37:42 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SWIV9-0000vx-Qg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 May 2012 22:37:41 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-ob0-f169.google.com ([209.85.214.169]:54227) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SWIV9-0000vk-Iw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 May 2012 22:37:39 -0400 Original-Received: by obbwd18 with SMTP id wd18so9485688obb.0 for ; Sun, 20 May 2012 19:37:37 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=GSPeO2sIBDt8W8dCR8+Wpckk9uqaGB9NhNuGyVtzMd8=; b=wSVMwdDBFlCZ1AzJGv/dYRwCg9wdFnVffb6ylQ4XOy+PfNy6/2MRlyzwe27C8E31Vx VB3Y9Yi7pRbyWs9M+FKswCGvOR9RQBljFKVl/4CemCTRZ7c4Cp9n2u2kJhNZ4Uu98IFN XOulakT6QDar7xN50O0VICCRDC9UiP0Krl4DejDFAXT9fbPwFes/DPKfp5jxrZsvQbvG reBUEGbY01JbNIc4r8cpKFvJJs+l22Z+K1CLZuWovQ3eeA29ntM30+jraBGgR8iTkop3 dwU4+LeL4S1Ru9/YfWa/nXq3LVzSMsDeeypSutHP7MoNbNDy+LsqSnZkLqNIxGECHHKT Fc0Q== Original-Received: by 10.60.18.137 with SMTP id w9mr17601915oed.7.1337567857612; Sun, 20 May 2012 19:37:37 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.182.204.38 with HTTP; Sun, 20 May 2012 19:37:37 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 209.85.214.169 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:150569 Archived-At: I would like to add a +1 for Raman's request. This would be very useful. It might also be worth having some way to tag what repository a package is from - help distinguish those which are GNU packages and in the GNU repository and those which are from some other repository and which may have different levels of status. Tim On 18 May 2012 01:38, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> I'd personally much rather see efforts put toward collapsible package >> categorization than simple filtering. > > As mentioned in an earlier message, I'd like to see such categorization > added, indeed. =A0But note that what the OP asks for is slightly > different, in that it depends on the user's own preferences. > > Maybe the categorization can reduce the need for the OP's feature. > And of course, maybe the two can be merged by letting the user add her > own categorization data (such as an "uninteresting" tag). > > > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0Stefan > --=20 Tim Cross