From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord)
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA, raman@google.com
Subject: Re: Auto-installing packages?
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2018 23:40:28 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1g2TLo-0007Es-CQ@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sh264w88.fsf@russet.org.uk> (phillip.lord@russet.org.uk)
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In response to
> > > So, for the case of Emacs and ELPA installing over the network vs
> > > pre-packaged is, I think, merely technical.
I wrote this:
> > That is a valid point, in the case of GNU ELPA.
> >
> > But would that facility be limited to GNU ELPA?
> > Or would it also be used with other package archives
> > that are not part of Emacs?
You responded
> Emacs already has the ability to do this, but it is up to the user to
> choose to do this.
That doesn't address the issue I am raising. It is a tangent.
Emacs has the ability to do any computation at all, if a user programs
it. The issue here is not what Emacs "has the ability to do", but
what it offers/encourages/suggests/makes convenient.
If we are going to add a convenient facility to load external
packages, it should be for ELPA (which is more or less a part of
Emacs), not for other package archives (which are NOT part of Emacs).
In general, treating all package archives alike is something to avoid.
It is a pitfall.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-09-19 3:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-14 1:51 Auto-installing packages? Stefan Monnier
2018-09-14 7:09 ` Phil Sainty
2018-09-14 8:39 ` T.V Raman
2018-09-15 0:46 ` Richard Stallman
2018-09-17 11:50 ` Phillip Lord
2018-09-17 22:51 ` Richard Stallman
2018-09-18 16:16 ` Phillip Lord
2018-09-19 3:40 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2018-09-20 16:58 ` Phillip Lord
2018-09-24 1:46 ` Richard Stallman
2018-09-14 14:11 ` Phillip Lord
2018-09-14 18:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-09-17 11:48 ` Phillip Lord
2018-09-17 13:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-09-18 16:12 ` Phillip Lord
2018-09-18 21:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-09-14 15:52 ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-09-15 0:50 ` Richard Stallman
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