From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs Package Management Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2008 01:25:38 +0200 Message-ID: <48939B72.8040306@gmail.com> References: <485b0c380808011427n4d3144eey3f8daf3abac83bf4@mail.gmail.com> <87ej589vku.fsf@hagelb.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1217633181 555 80.91.229.12 (1 Aug 2008 23:26:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 23:26:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Tom Tromey , Stephen Eilert , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Phil Hagelberg Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 02 01:27:11 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KP41Y-0005Oq-9c for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Aug 2008 01:27:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57103 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KP40d-0005Nf-Ha for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Aug 2008 19:26:07 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KP40Z-0005MK-J2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Aug 2008 19:26:03 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KP40X-0005Ik-07 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Aug 2008 19:26:02 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=50745 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KP40W-0005IR-TI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Aug 2008 19:26:00 -0400 Original-Received: from ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.213]:48382) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KP40W-0003j1-68 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Aug 2008 19:26:00 -0400 Original-Received: from c83-254-151-176.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.151.176]:64023 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1KP40R-0002xg-6o; Sat, 02 Aug 2008 01:25:55 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071031 Thunderbird/2.0.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: <87ej589vku.fsf@hagelb.org> X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 080801-0, 2008-08-01), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.151.176 X-ACL-Warn: Too high rate of unknown addresses received from you X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1KP40R-0002xg-6o. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net 1KP40R-0002xg-6o 2c2b13af8b57f16301ac89e758322842 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:101931 Archived-At: Phil Hagelberg wrote: > This would make them much, much easier to install and try out, which I > think is a big win for the overall Elisp ecosystem. People are more > likely to get interested and contribute if you lower the barrier to > trying new things. And the barrier would be even lower if ELPA had an uninstall command. Or, maybe I should say that it would be lower for me if I knew the name of the uninstall command in ELPA?