From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord)
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Auto-installing packages?
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2018 17:05:22 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvzhwea5df.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wori4weh.fsf@russet.org.uk> (Phillip Lord's message of "Tue, 18 Sep 2018 17:12:38 +0100")
> Yes. Although, in this case, I have put the packages I want to install
> into my .emacs. So not "silent" at that point. I am doing something
> concrete.
Not "am doing": "have done". It's quite different.
A big part of the prompt is to ask whether we should do it *now*.
> It's easy to add, although I suspect answering "Y" would become part of
> the muscule memory.
I doubt it (it's supposed to be something that occurs rarely, so muscle
memory probably wouldn't come into play), but in any case I don't think
it's a problem if it builds into someone's muscle memory.
> I forget how package.el works, but it inherits behaviour from that. So,
> it will update the package-list (i.e. call home) if your .emacs.d/elpa
> is empty.
It doesn't do asynchronously, currently.
It only does it in response to something like `M-x package-list-packages`.
[ And IIUC it currently doesn't do it in response to `M-x
package-install` even it probably should. ]
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-09-18 21:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-14 1:51 Auto-installing packages? Stefan Monnier
2018-09-14 7:09 ` Phil Sainty
2018-09-14 8:39 ` T.V Raman
2018-09-15 0:46 ` Richard Stallman
2018-09-17 11:50 ` Phillip Lord
2018-09-17 22:51 ` Richard Stallman
2018-09-18 16:16 ` Phillip Lord
2018-09-19 3:40 ` Richard Stallman
2018-09-20 16:58 ` Phillip Lord
2018-09-24 1:46 ` Richard Stallman
2018-09-14 14:11 ` Phillip Lord
2018-09-14 18:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-09-17 11:48 ` Phillip Lord
2018-09-17 13:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-09-18 16:12 ` Phillip Lord
2018-09-18 21:05 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2018-09-14 15:52 ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-09-15 0:50 ` Richard Stallman
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