From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Improving browsing and discoverability in the Packages Menu Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2015 23:16:34 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87r3rhoexe.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87twwdm40x.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87pp70dic3.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1429413423 13240 80.91.229.3 (19 Apr 2015 03:17:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2015 03:17:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Alexis Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 19 05:16:56 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Yjfj5-0007bE-IJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Apr 2015 05:16:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47398 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yjfj4-00085h-O8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Apr 2015 23:16:54 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60724) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yjfit-00085U-W2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Apr 2015 23:16:44 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yjfiq-0003is-Qv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Apr 2015 23:16:43 -0400 Original-Received: from chene.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.20]:54261) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yjfiq-0003ie-Lf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Apr 2015 23:16:40 -0400 Original-Received: from pastel.home (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by chene.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id t3J3GaPm021226; Sat, 18 Apr 2015 23:16:38 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 2E3122488; Sat, 18 Apr 2015 23:16:34 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <87pp70dic3.fsf@gmail.com> (Alexis's message of "Sun, 19 Apr 2015 11:20:44 +1000") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-NAI-Spam-Flag: NO X-NAI-Spam-Threshold: 5 X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 1 Rules triggered RV5280=0 X-NAI-Spam-Version: 2.3.0.9393 : core <5280> : inlines <2752> : streams <1424842> : uri <1910281> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 132.204.246.20 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:185651 Archived-At: > i would find it very useful just to be able to visually 'hide' things > i consider to be clutter whilst browsing. For instance: i no longer use the > `autocomplete` package, so all the packages beginning with ac- are of no > interest to me. Maybe one way to hide those "ac-*" packages is to let the user state "I won't install package " so that all packages which (transitively) require get greyed out or hidden. We already have something similar in the treatment of packages which require a version of Emacs higher than the current one. Stefan