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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: RFC: Adding BBDB to Emacs core
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2018 08:30:02 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwva7u3qqsx.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.devel@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87sh7vyhez.fsf@md5i.com

> I would support any method that does _not_ require a working internet
> connection in order to install packages.

We're discussing something quite different, tho: the proposal would be
something like "also clone elpa.git when you clone emacs.git", or "fetch
some packages from elpa.git while building the Emacs tarball".

> I have had to work on Emacs in
> many, many places that have limited or non-existent network connections.
> The ability to "move a package to external medium," then "install from
> medium as a 'package' maintained by package-mode" would be very nice to
> have.

There's `package-install-file` for that.


        Stefan




  reply	other threads:[~2018-04-16 12:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-04-14  5:54 RFC: Adding BBDB to Emacs core Thomas Fitzsimmons
2018-04-14 12:24 ` Joshua Branson
2018-04-14 22:06   ` Eric Abrahamsen
2018-04-14 22:46     ` Joshua Branson
2018-04-15  6:18       ` Bozhidar Batsov
2018-04-16  5:21         ` John Wiegley
2018-04-16 14:53           ` Thomas Fitzsimmons
2018-04-16 18:36             ` Stefan Monnier
2018-04-16 20:30               ` Eric Abrahamsen
2018-04-17  3:37               ` Thomas Fitzsimmons
2018-04-23 12:53             ` Phillip Lord
2018-04-23 13:21               ` Stefan Monnier
2018-04-23 16:21                 ` Phillip Lord
2018-04-23 17:45                   ` Stefan Monnier
2018-04-24 21:41                     ` Phillip Lord
2018-04-24 22:31                       ` Stefan Monnier
2018-04-25  0:42                         ` Paul Eggert
2018-04-25  1:50                           ` Stefan Monnier
2018-04-25  9:21                             ` Phillip Lord
2018-04-25 12:02                               ` Stefan Monnier
2018-04-25 16:31                                 ` Phillip Lord
2018-04-25 16:57                                   ` Stefan Monnier
2018-04-26 14:59                                     ` Phillip Lord
2018-04-25  9:19                         ` Phillip Lord
2018-04-25 16:04                         ` Radon Rosborough
2018-04-25 16:32                           ` Phillip Lord
2018-04-25 16:55                             ` Stefan Monnier
2018-04-25 20:16                               ` Radon Rosborough
2018-04-26 15:02                               ` Phillip Lord
2018-04-26 16:38                                 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-04-27  9:57                                   ` Phillip Lord
2018-04-27 13:32                                     ` Stefan Monnier
2018-04-17  3:23           ` Roland Winkler
2018-04-17  4:56             ` John Wiegley
2018-04-17 13:07             ` Stefan Monnier
2018-04-17 15:13               ` Roland Winkler
2018-04-18 23:11                 ` Stephen Leake
2018-04-23 12:57             ` Phillip Lord
2018-04-23 13:26             ` Stefan Monnier
2018-04-23 15:29               ` Roland Winkler
2018-04-14 22:13   ` Thomas Fitzsimmons
2018-04-14 13:34 ` Glenn Morris
2018-04-14 17:10   ` Radon Rosborough
2018-04-14 17:38   ` Thomas Fitzsimmons
2018-04-15 21:20   ` Phillip Lord
2018-04-16  3:11     ` Michael Welsh Duggan
2018-04-16 12:30       ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2018-04-16 17:09     ` Achim Gratz
2018-04-16 18:10       ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-04-16 18:14         ` Achim Gratz
2018-04-23 12:45       ` Phillip Lord

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