From: Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: RFC: Flavors - naming significant sets of customizations
Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2013 20:55:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877gbrj840.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.7486.1385748092.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com> writes:
> A good way to think would be to "segment" the users.
>
> If one just puts a starting init file for each of the
> "segment" in GNU ELPA, then this file and library
> itself will become a focal point for consensus
> building. In a word, the .el file becomes a
> "clearing house" for common or recommended
> configuration.
...although I understand it now, I still don't like
it. It is something "Asperger
syndrome"/schoolboyishness about that whole line of
thinking.
If we have a tool that can do a hundred things, why
market it as "you should use this suite, if you want to
do [a subset] 10 things?" Does that really make sense?
--
Emanuel Berg, programmer-for-rent. CV, projects, etc at uXu
underground experts united: http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573
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2013-11-25 19:31 RFC: Flavors - naming significant sets of customizations ian.tegebo
2013-11-25 19:44 ` Jambunathan K
2013-11-25 19:54 ` Drew Adams
2013-11-25 20:04 ` Jambunathan K
2013-11-25 21:14 ` Drew Adams
2013-11-25 19:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-11-25 20:19 ` Dirk-Jan C. Binnema
2013-11-25 20:27 ` Jambunathan K
2013-11-25 20:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-11-25 21:11 ` Drew Adams
2013-11-26 2:12 ` William G. Gardella
2013-11-26 2:15 ` William G. Gardella
2013-11-26 2:25 ` William G. Gardella
[not found] ` <mailman.7131.1385432744.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-11-26 3:12 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-11-26 14:35 ` Drew Adams
[not found] ` <mailman.7112.1385413891.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-11-26 0:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-11-26 1:41 ` Drew Adams
2013-11-25 21:10 ` Drew Adams
2013-11-25 21:05 ` Peter Dyballa
2013-11-25 21:25 ` Jambunathan K
2013-11-26 1:03 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-11-26 9:42 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
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2013-11-25 20:04 ` ian.tegebo
2013-11-26 20:15 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-11-26 20:33 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-11-26 21:00 ` Peter Dyballa
2013-11-27 1:22 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <mailman.7149.1385458742.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-11-27 4:03 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-11-29 1:40 ` Rustom Mody
2013-11-29 4:24 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-11-29 5:56 ` Rustom Mody
2013-11-30 1:05 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-11-30 5:52 ` Jambunathan K
2013-11-30 6:06 ` Jambunathan K
2013-11-30 6:56 ` Jambunathan K
[not found] ` <mailman.7606.1385794704.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-11-30 7:49 ` Emanuel Berg
[not found] ` <mailman.7603.1385790839.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-11-30 7:57 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-11-30 14:22 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-12-01 6:18 ` Jambunathan K
2013-12-01 6:30 ` Jambunathan K
[not found] ` <mailman.7689.1385878732.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-12-01 16:27 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-12-02 5:21 ` Jambunathan K
2013-12-02 16:29 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-12-02 17:07 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-12-03 12:29 ` Jambunathan K
[not found] ` <mailman.7971.1386070312.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-12-03 21:27 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-12-04 7:25 ` Jambunathan K
[not found] ` <mailman.8057.1386141963.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-12-04 17:50 ` Emanuel Berg
[not found] ` <mailman.7691.1385879486.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-12-01 16:29 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-11-29 8:31 ` Yuri Khan
2013-11-29 18:00 ` Jambunathan K
[not found] ` <mailman.7486.1385748092.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-11-29 19:13 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-12-01 7:09 ` Jambunathan K
2013-12-01 20:57 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-12-02 5:25 ` Jambunathan K
2013-12-02 5:57 ` Jambunathan K
2013-12-02 16:47 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-12-02 16:34 ` Emanuel Berg
[not found] ` <mailman.7875.1386002111.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-12-02 22:23 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-12-02 0:51 ` Emanuel Berg
[not found] ` <mailman.7693.1385881824.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-12-01 16:35 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-12-01 20:40 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-11-29 19:55 ` Emanuel Berg [this message]
2013-11-30 2:52 ` Rustom Mody
2013-11-30 3:28 ` Emanuel Berg
[not found] ` <mailman.7436.1385713911.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-12-04 17:52 ` Ted Zlatanov
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