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: RFC: Adding BBDB to Emacs core Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2018 08:30:02 -0400 Message-ID: References: <3ovactap4b.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87sh7wi2up.fsf@russet.org.uk> <87sh7vyhez.fsf@md5i.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1523881745 30845 195.159.176.226 (16 Apr 2018 12:29:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2018 12:29:05 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 16 14:29:01 2018 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 1f83Fi-0007rO-49 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Apr 2018 14:28:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42967 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f83Ho-0004y0-Hc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Apr 2018 08:31:08 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44439) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f83H1-0004vn-66 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Apr 2018 08:30:20 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f83Gv-0003NU-Sv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Apr 2018 08:30:19 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=38261 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f83Gv-0003MN-Dz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Apr 2018 08:30:13 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1f83Ek-0006fJ-PP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Apr 2018 14:27:58 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:L4MFsGWGeR4vs+v3RtY3+hZS7pk= 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:224640 Archived-At: > 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