From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: On Contributing To Emacs Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2021 23:15:26 -0500 Message-ID: References: <83zgoopkwb.fsf@gnu.org> <874k6wsajh.fsf@posteo.net> <87o8536fry.fsf@yahoo.com> <87bl13kqob.fsf@posteo.net> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="7610"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: luangruo@yahoo.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Philip Kaludercic Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 27 05:19:25 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1n1hTo-0001pa-TS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 27 Dec 2021 05:19:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59184 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n1hTn-0000dX-UU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 26 Dec 2021 23:19:23 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:32840) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n1hPy-0001HP-EI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Dec 2021 23:15:26 -0500 Original-Received: from [2001:470:142:3::e] (port=45052 helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n1hPy-0003F0-46; Sun, 26 Dec 2021 23:15:26 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=OaPL6H/rY5s1Z/EpD1UBMmFzXikI2fPm73szbvKHclA=; b=nweGKhr8nRNk RTCPjQ95MF4m+nOX47Pz74WWU6G61suw6/uiOUqkTMdIlOPP7ktb1f092rQLsK6acmpXPlRrwixFJ YNQn8y/6pDt9xIGiMy+ncX7f/IgjeCIExHaceYT7w3VhxB5lyyQx8feLBUBI0BCnxOxe22N/ByGyt vVhrunlScxvBWbhreX1P20Tk8kK9p0Pbk/+DUgOg5UC1X/l7Wbx+CjtKb+Vbbhok7UBnBcQkNZEg0 LP1Rg3bLbiAdo7LOIZNe37PsXSqjcg/KhWDZlN0cekowPagqtohMxDN+WMMLbTw5od+ncuzyW/7Gt hq88a8jOxBZsdL1xgEtesw==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n1hPy-0001bz-An; Sun, 26 Dec 2021 23:15:26 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87bl13kqob.fsf@posteo.net> (message from Philip Kaludercic on Sun, 26 Dec 2021 21:21:56 +0000) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:283384 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > straight.el is an alternative package manager that for the purposes of > this thread clones a Git repository directly instead of fetching the > package contents from a package archive like ELPA. Thanks. When you say "package manager", do you mean something like apt which manages a fixed set of packages, or something like package.el which manages a custom set of packages that the user specifies? > I believe it does a > bit more along the lines of functional package managers like Nix and > Guix, Guix is like apt -- it manages a set of packages provided by a site. I think the same is true of Nix. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)