From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
Cc: thievol@posteo.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Changes to make in elpa-packages file for nongnu elpa
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2023 21:56:11 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83y1ic8790.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zg2sjleg.fsf@posteo.net> (message from Philip Kaludercic on Tue, 15 Aug 2023 16:55:03 +0000)
> From: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2023 16:55:03 +0000
>
> +*** New command to start Emacs only with specific packages
> +The command 'package-isolate' is equivalent to starting Emacs with the
> +-Q flag and loading specific packages (and their dependencies)
> +manually.
Seems strange to me to have a command to start another Emacs. Why not
implement this as a command-line option instead? That would be
consistent with the several options we already have, like -q, -Q, -D,
which already contrl what happens at startup.
> + (let* ((real (package-desc-dir package))
> + (link (expand-file-name (file-name-nondirectory real) elpa)))
> + (make-symbolic-link real link t)
Using symbolic links makes the program less portable, so it is best to
avoid them.
> + (apply #'start-process (concat "*" name "*") nil
> + (append (list (or (emacs-executable) "emacs")
I don't think it's a good idea to invoke just "emacs", it could be a
completely different version of Emacs.
> +DEFUN ("emacs-executable", Femacs_executable, Semacs_executable, 0, 0, "",
> + doc: /* Return a string with the file name of the Emacs executable.
> +If this is not known, nil will be returned instead. */)
> + (void)
I don't understand why you need this primitive. What's wrong with the
usual paradigm we use everywhere else:
(expand-file-name invocation-name invocation-directory)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-08-15 18:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-08-07 7:57 Changes to make in elpa-packages file for nongnu elpa Thierry Volpiatto
2023-08-07 13:30 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-08-07 18:19 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2023-08-07 20:33 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-08-08 4:33 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2023-08-08 5:52 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-08-08 6:17 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2023-08-15 16:55 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-08-15 17:34 ` Eshel Yaron
2023-08-15 19:39 ` Proposal for 'package-isolate' command Philip Kaludercic
2023-08-17 10:53 ` Adam Porter
2023-08-15 18:56 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2023-08-15 19:52 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-08-16 11:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-08-16 18:48 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-08-16 6:51 ` Changes to make in elpa-packages file for nongnu elpa Thierry Volpiatto
2023-08-16 10:10 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-08-16 10:14 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2023-08-16 11:03 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-08-16 11:55 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2023-08-16 18:34 ` Proposal for 'package-isolate' command Philip Kaludercic
2023-08-16 18:49 ` Stefan Kangas
2023-08-16 19:00 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-08-17 5:30 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2023-08-17 8:34 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-08-17 9:07 ` Eshel Yaron
2023-08-17 14:19 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-08-17 13:32 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2023-08-17 14:04 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-08-17 14:15 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2023-08-17 13:56 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2023-08-17 14:18 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-08-17 14:28 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2023-08-17 18:17 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-08-18 4:57 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2023-08-18 5:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-08-18 7:49 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-08-18 12:43 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2023-08-18 18:34 ` Adding package and package-vc to ELPA Philip Kaludercic
2023-08-19 10:26 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2023-08-20 6:40 ` Proposal for 'package-isolate' command Thierry Volpiatto
2023-08-20 7:51 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-08-20 16:06 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2023-08-20 18:41 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-08-20 19:15 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2023-08-20 20:24 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2023-08-20 20:28 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-08-16 14:10 ` Changes to make in elpa-packages file for nongnu elpa Eli Zaretskii
2023-08-16 18:52 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-08-08 6:01 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2023-08-08 6:34 ` Michael Albinus
2023-08-08 16:37 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-08-08 16:41 ` Michael Albinus
2023-08-09 7:06 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-08-09 11:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-08-09 14:53 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-08-09 14:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-08-09 15:24 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-08-09 16:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-08-09 3:47 ` Richard Stallman
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