From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Installing binaries with package.el Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2017 01:09:08 -0500 Message-ID: References: <3fdcbe78-969e-f9e1-2a9d-a5f8494c35b3@mit.edu> <8760kmtvpu.fsf@mbork.pl> <35ae3a71-f8da-3405-6966-38337d8e74e0@gmail.com> <87lgtgmspv.fsf@hochschule-trier.de> <87poir81xi.fsf@hochschule-trier.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1486706966 17205 195.159.176.226 (10 Feb 2017 06:09:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2017 06:09:26 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 10 07:09:22 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cc4OX-00046k-Dn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Feb 2017 07:09:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42079 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cc4Oc-0003r5-Pr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Feb 2017 01:09:26 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47747) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cc4OW-0003qk-7A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Feb 2017 01:09:21 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cc4OS-0007XW-SZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Feb 2017 01:09:20 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=48239 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cc4OS-0007Vv-Lu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Feb 2017 01:09:16 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cc4OK-0003Rx-RH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Feb 2017 07:09:08 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:E22SRcO02DHD1XJnY3nVbmZ9l64= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:212200 Archived-At: >> Any reason why you do it as part of the autoloads rather than as part of >> the compilation of the package? >> [ I can see some advantages, but I'm curious what were the reasons in >> your case. ] > I just didn't think of it. It felt like a lot of people wanted this and > so I let my cat walk over my laptop until she said : "I think it might be > working now.". Nice cat! >> In the case of pdf-tools, what kind of pre-remove would be needed? > Actually, I was just generally speaking. But in the case of pdf-tools, > it could clean up before an update can happen, which is a critical phase > anyhow. Not sure what you mean by "upgrade" (upgrade of what?) nor what you'd clean up at that point. Stefan