From: Tyler Smith <tyler.smith@mail.mcgill.ca>
To: Josh <josh@foxtail.org>
Cc: "Thomas Koch" <thomas@koch.ro>, "Jan Djärv" <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>,
"Stefan Monnier" <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
"emacs-devel@gnu.org" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Emacs and XDG Base Dir Spec was: persistent storage for Emacs packages
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 14:24:07 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADkt+ZvtdaLk1zZQOCOy8OBjuKGFfA+PsQ43572ZN+FRO1MCsA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20874_1382379012_52656E04_20874_7_7_6906997aba2b4fc2b717f1f695c0e3df@EXHUB2010-2.campus.MCGILL.CA>
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Another issue here is what is meant by 'package' in this context.
I have packages from elpa, melpa, etc in ~/.emacs.d/elpa. That directory
also includes development versions of packages I'm working on, installed
via package-install-file. Then there's all the bits and pieces of elisp
that I've either written myself or found online. These are stored either in
~/.emacs.d/ or a subdirectory.
I also keep the emacs sources in .emacs.d/trunk, as I'm using the latest
development version.
Everything in that directory is backed up in a private bitbucket
repository, set to ignore .emacs.d/trunk and .emacs.d/elpa.
From Stefan's comment it sounds as if I should pull everything out of
.emacs.d except init and elpa. But it's convenient for me to have emacs in
its own contained world on my computer. Is there a risk of breaking
something with this approach?
Tyler
On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 2:09 PM, Josh <josh@foxtail.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 6:19 AM, Tyler Smith <tyler.smith@mail.mcgill.ca>
> wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 8:58 AM, Stefan Monnier <
> monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> Still, we have the problem with ~/.emacs.d that many users put their
> >> elisp packages in there and then add it to their load-path.
> >>
> > That's exactly what I do. What is wrong with this, and what is the
> preferred
> > alternative?
>
> That's a good question:
>
> package-user-dir is a variable defined in `package.el'.
> Its value is "~/.emacs.d/elpa"
>
> This variable may be risky if used as a file-local variable.
>
> Documentation:
> Directory containing the user's Emacs Lisp packages.
> The directory name should be absolute.
> Apart from this directory, Emacs also looks for system-wide
> packages in `package-directory-list'.
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-21 18:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-18 16:45 persistent storage for Emacs packages Tyler Smith
2013-10-18 17:44 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2013-10-18 19:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-10-18 22:37 ` Josh
2013-10-18 22:49 ` Rüdiger Sonderfeld
2013-10-18 23:00 ` Josh
[not found] ` <18713_1382137341_5261BDFD_18713_15_2_da88b78b76204dbcbbf9b5a4acbe6a0c@EXHUB2010-3.campus.MCGILL.CA>
2013-10-19 1:37 ` Tyler Smith
[not found] ` <19473_1382126090_5261920A_19473_52_3_0b1fb8bede554cb79d9303697d2056a2@EXHUB2010-3.campus.MCGILL.CA>
2013-10-18 20:01 ` Tyler Smith
2013-10-19 1:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-10-18 22:45 ` Karl Fogel
2013-10-18 22:48 ` Nic Ferrier
2013-11-21 16:13 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-11-22 13:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-11-25 13:30 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-11-25 16:58 ` Nic Ferrier
2013-11-25 19:21 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-10-20 19:19 ` Emacs and XDG Base Dir Spec was: " Thomas Koch
2013-10-20 23:16 ` Glenn Morris
2013-10-21 5:07 ` Jan Djärv
2013-10-21 6:32 ` Glenn Morris
2013-10-21 7:47 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2013-10-21 9:35 ` Jan Djärv
2013-10-21 12:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-10-21 13:31 ` John Yates
2013-10-21 15:25 ` Barry Fishman
[not found] ` <17329_1382360340_52652514_17329_164_1_1c38477173ab4b6cb80a8c50bd6dd0e9@EXHUB2010-1.campus.MCGILL.CA>
2013-10-21 13:19 ` Tyler Smith
2013-10-21 18:09 ` Josh
[not found] ` <20874_1382379012_52656E04_20874_7_7_6906997aba2b4fc2b717f1f695c0e3df@EXHUB2010-2.campus.MCGILL.CA>
2013-10-21 18:24 ` Tyler Smith [this message]
2013-10-21 19:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-10-21 20:54 ` Josh
2013-10-21 21:00 ` Glenn Morris
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