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: List packages Status column terminology Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 20:57:37 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87bnzbi4ti.fsf@gmail.com> <874n527av5.fsf@gmail.com> <87eh46knzj.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1390096671 17868 80.91.229.3 (19 Jan 2014 01:57:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2014 01:57:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Sivaram Neelakantan Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 19 02:57:57 2014 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 1W4he9-0005NK-2S for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Jan 2014 02:57:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44830 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W4he8-0000LG-Op for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Jan 2014 20:57:56 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49443) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W4hdy-0000Kx-Cw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Jan 2014 20:57:53 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W4hdr-00084o-4W for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Jan 2014 20:57:46 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:6038) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W4hdr-00084J-0C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Jan 2014 20:57:39 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av4EABK/CFFMCplR/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IeAQEEAVYjBQsLDiYSFBgNJIgeBsEtkQoDiGGcGYFegxU X-IPAS-Result: Av4EABK/CFFMCplR/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IeAQEEAVYjBQsLDiYSFBgNJIgeBsEtkQoDiGGcGYFegxU X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.84,565,1355115600"; d="scan'208";a="45287051" Original-Received: from 76-10-153-81.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([76.10.153.81]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 18 Jan 2014 20:57:38 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 58713603B8; Sat, 18 Jan 2014 20:57:37 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <87eh46knzj.fsf@gmail.com> (Sivaram Neelakantan's message of "Sat, 18 Jan 2014 08:14:32 +0530") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.181 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:168710 Archived-At: >>> Well, it probably would make sense to change the 'Status' to 'Action' as >>> that would be a better reflection of 'list-packages' functionality. >> What "Action" do you propose for "built-in"? And "obsolete"? > Why, "installed" and not show obsolete packages. "installed" doesn't sound much like an action. > And obsolete packages, that stumps me. You lack imagination. "obsolete" means that the version number is not the highest. But maybe the user wants that "older" package. Stefan