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: Not a prefix arg Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2022 12:46:17 -0400 Message-ID: References: <164484721900.31751.1453162457552427931@vcs2.savannah.gnu.org> <20220214140020.04438C00891@vcs2.savannah.gnu.org> <87bkqmqpvb.fsf@posteo.net> <87edv96q4j.fsf@posteo.net> <83tu455a5s.fsf@gnu.org> <87a65v2ytp.fsf@posteo.net> <834jw33rmx.fsf@gnu.org> <87pmer0xtz.fsf@posteo.net> <83wn8z2aze.fsf@gnu.org> <878rle1i0k.fsf@posteo.net> <87ilkelc10.fsf@posteo.net> <878rl6syg8.fsf@posteo.net> <87zgdjqcu0.fsf@posteo.net> <87pmeev40u.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="722"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Philip Kaludercic Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 01 18:04:02 2022 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 1opugD-000AVs-RT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 01 Nov 2022 18:04:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1opuP9-00008E-5O; Tue, 01 Nov 2022 12:46:23 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1opuP5-00007J-7i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Nov 2022 12:46:19 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1opuP4-0000Db-VO; Tue, 01 Nov 2022 12:46:19 -0400 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=kme7v3kM/k1DTx/wz8cnxJWpXVwOBgikKNwdCDvE26M=; b=NEexG5eBL2+T rGMoQI8x7lxocaxWzEGra+z/QjNmS9JLMnjBNUaDogUOpXCnYdddc3L1R6fVz1sire5v82IUm3NyN fBsmPFy5qZV/uh+wGIHLQJ3mfF7jK8rS3EJDzKzZKkYmTt50tJGdVg/LZF6zkBzw3MYoTamna3oiq O4XvmQCDmHgs7mxoOBneAbLNX3M3ncFZJDNvepEv/kXw2VFLHV+1XCK9peMS1FbEXcSnIQUI7A3k+ xAwz/EiLO8CMvw8Tf7QZrg3L+MMu9N2cjm8yr3TtYMYxYZ08SVN4MJzawEnVRTUyq++DR8iISrGjh XF0afxDfzs/3HRdohSzwEw==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1opuP3-0000H7-7V; Tue, 01 Nov 2022 12:46:17 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87pmeev40u.fsf@posteo.net> (message from Philip Kaludercic on Wed, 26 Oct 2022 18:22:25 +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: , Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:298940 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. ]]] > I have pushed a commit to feature/package+vc that will use the release > revision (if it is known) when `package-vc-install' is invoked with a > prefix argument. It is good to offer both options. However, the question of which version to check out, and in which repo, makes a big difference. A prefix argument is easy to forget, and if you get the source for the wrong version (wrong for your purposes), you may not recognize that it is the wrong version. I think we need to have two command names for these two things to do, and each command name should make the difference clear. -- 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)