From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rusi Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: using use-package Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2015 10:30:17 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5302dbf7-0535-4394-8710-b1923edd6922@googlegroups.com> References: <20150805055619.13567.17B26335@ahiker.mooo.com> <17131863-cbb8-4a85-8470-490fe9a0c0d4@googlegroups.com> <66dceb24-5fef-4316-8c8b-e9a3e62b0fb8@googlegroups.com> <3594e2c6-bd02-412f-98df-9dd0f145277a@googlegroups.com> <01b4d996-aad3-44ff-a580-7950b25b7dc8@googlegroups.com> <7af5f969-32bc-4286-9488-c1df4b74a695@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1439141720 30200 80.91.229.3 (9 Aug 2015 17:35:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2015 17:35:20 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 09 19:35:20 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1ZOUVD-0004Bs-JW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 09 Aug 2015 19:35:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55852 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZOUVC-0001Hu-Fx for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 09 Aug 2015 13:35:18 -0400 X-Received: by 10.67.3.5 with SMTP id bs5mr16081819pad.35.1439141417978; Sun, 09 Aug 2015 10:30:17 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.50.66.205 with SMTP id h13mr89401igt.10.1439141417940; Sun, 09 Aug 2015 10:30:17 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!se8no1087932igc.0!news-out.google.com!nt1ni3740igb.0!nntp.google.com!se8no1087922igc.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=61.1.39.67; posting-account=mBpa7woAAAAGLEWUUKpmbxm-Quu5D8ui Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 61.1.39.67 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Sun, 09 Aug 2015 17:30:17 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:214128 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:106412 Archived-At: On Sunday, August 9, 2015 at 10:47:29 PM UTC+5:30, Stefan Monnier wrote: > >> The problem is to define "something like". > > Simply solved -- Just pick up req-package :-) > > I haven't looked at it. Does it drop the "work around mis-configured > packages" baggage? req-package is basically use-package + dependency management + el-get. Do you see apt-get just off the horizon? Does it work?? Long story req-package 'requires' use-package, dash, log4e So kind of 'recursion' problem -- req-package needs (a bit of) the problem that it is solving pre-solved. So I tried the author's sister package-using-examplar system https://github.com/edvorg/emacs-configs which means I now have to get rid of my own .emacs.d Use this new one And retrofit all my stuff onto that framework