From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Tim Cross <theophilusx@gmail.com>,
"emacs-devel@gnu.org" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: [External] : Re: [ANN] The 2022 Emacs User Survey is now open!
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2022 01:30:21 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <SJ0PR10MB54880B3B4FAC82A71485F625F3319@SJ0PR10MB5488.namprd10.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <865yg8kcqp.fsf@gmail.com>
> I agree with Po. The question "When you discover a new package that
> looks interesting, what do you do next?" needs a do nothing or perhaps
> "Wait until I actually need it before trying it out". I see many
> 'interesting' packages, but most of them I don't try or use because
> despite being interesting, they add no value to what I actually do.
>
> More generally, I feel the questions about packages have a slight bias
> towards a behaviour which I frequently see, but feel is often
> misguided. That is, to madly install lots of packages, most of which you
> never use (a behaviour common in other systems which use a package
> system to extend functionality).
+1
prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-10-25 1:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-10-24 10:27 [ANN] The 2022 Emacs User Survey is now open! Timothy
2022-10-24 13:25 ` Po Lu
2022-10-24 14:40 ` Akib Azmain Turja
2022-10-24 14:48 ` Timothy
2022-10-25 11:29 ` Akib Azmain Turja
2022-10-24 16:05 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-10-24 23:26 ` Tim Cross
2022-10-25 1:30 ` Drew Adams [this message]
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