From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Can list-packages be set up to show latest github emacs packages? Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2017 10:47:29 -0500 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87shdm6sq6.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <3f62e436-87d6-485e-aea8-7e403a9db901@googlegroups.com> <87h8u78kxi.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87bmkc9aar.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87wp2z72zv.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1510329039 21581 195.159.176.226 (10 Nov 2017 15:50:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2017 15:50:39 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 10 16:50:34 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1eDBZh-0005Ee-IY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Nov 2017 16:50:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42324 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eDBZn-0005ES-82 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Nov 2017 10:50:39 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!goblin1!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!feeder.erje.net!1.eu.feeder.erje.net!news.albasani.net!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Trace: news.albasani.net zkTKUardaSLW79bNzSWK3anO49myfWrTz4ONj8SkCraiz+ySYmS03g7XX/GgXQEl3H71PHh0N4XYRfgIIHf/pg== Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2017 15:47:30 +0000 (UTC) Original-Injection-Info: news.albasani.net; logging-data="4bykeadDknHjWqPvlzJEvYkkx5fcbtSj6CPrdb/vWgKR/DTLzSmIT/r92iyeoDN62Rp95NBTPu3PT+4iqBYJSbFvf8J6mPOIJezjTaU3yoJNYu2KzT36ZcLpCdv0Kd7g"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@albasani.net" X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6; d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" Cancel-Lock: sha1:fxmCisO7duf+X0OAr+B+hul0SD0= sha1:aFW6okev4M+RkWCMED94WNMyF48= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:220726 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:114835 Archived-At: On Fri, 10 Nov 2017 08:46:39 -0500 Stefan Monnier wrote: SM> Why should the user care so much about which protocol is used to talk to SM> the archive? Recipes and packages are not the same thing fundamentally. SM> For the foreseeable future, only GNU ELPA will be in the default SM> archives, so there's no need for a switch, since users would first have SM> to "manually" add some other archive anyway (and probably install some SM> third party package to add support for non-ELPA archives on top of SM> that). OK, but you're merging: GNU and non-GNU ELPA package archives el-get recipe archives user's own el-get recipes (overriding or new) Those are not the same thing. For instance, upgrading: do you upgrade the *recipe definition*, or the *thing it defines* (e.g. a Git branch)? Ted