From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: A proposal for a friendlier Emacs Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2020 16:39:32 +0300 Message-ID: <83lfgyrn57.fsf@gnu.org> References: <4be18b5f-dc07-2703-a2de-1ed08916ebdf@gmail.com> <1e340d941b6fd0b21a477f39fc935468@condition-alpha.com> <62ff80b8ff943b698ef8c46849b8bc50@condition-alpha.com> <83y2l0vas0.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="19750"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Alexander Adolf Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 25 15:40:41 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kLnxp-00052E-Lj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 25 Sep 2020 15:40:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46082 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kLnxo-00030U-NM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 25 Sep 2020 09:40:40 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:60438) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kLnwi-00025R-LH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Sep 2020 09:39:32 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:36988) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kLnwi-0007iO-9R; Fri, 25 Sep 2020 09:39:32 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=4297 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kLnwX-0000wr-CR; Fri, 25 Sep 2020 09:39:22 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Alexander Adolf on Fri, 25 Sep 2020 15:22:31 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:256425 Archived-At: > From: Alexander Adolf > Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2020 15:22:31 +0200 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > > [...] > >> Let the package author choose and, and only one category, and any number > >> of tags he/she wants to use to describe the package. > > > > That might be possible for some specialized packages, but not forf all > > of them. > > >> When a user installs a package from a package archive, the category > >> chosen by the author is presented as the default choice, and can be > >> overridden by the user. > > > > If the category is not fixed, I'm not sure I see the utility of having > > such categories at all in the custom file. > > My idea about the category was to use it for grouping things into > "topical files" inside emacs.d. Consider the following, fictional, > example: Thanks, but I think we may be miscommunicating. A package can belong to more than one category -- what do you propose to do in that case?