Re: Interoperation between package managers

[Nikolay Kudryavtsev <nikolay.kudryavtsev@gmail.com>]

Hello.

For long term, I think Emacs would need to implement something along 
those lines:

Let's say we have feature-lookup-list, that contains feature lookup 
functions. Each function returns either the feature, or nil. When 
looking for a feature we call each lookup function one by one until we 
get a positive or run out of handlers. So the first function would be 
file-feature-lookup, using load-path. Then we get one for package.el. 
And of course the first time package.el lookup handler is called, it 
does (package-initialize). In such system you can just cut out 
package.el lookup handler from feature-lookup-list to disable it, and 
each alternative package manager would just need to provide such function.

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Best Regards,
Nikolay Kudryavtsev