From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Alain Schneble Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: feature/integrated-elpa 4f6df43 15/23: README added Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2016 12:01:20 +0200 Message-ID: <868ttj5ogf.fsf@realize.ch> References: <20160916203414.25203.87032@vcs.savannah.gnu.org> <87instslxu.fsf@russet.org.uk> <83inst1vut.fsf@gnu.org> <87eg3ekjz2.fsf@russet.org.uk> <83vawpx677.fsf@gnu.org> <87h989ixxd.fsf@russet.org.uk> <83mvi1ww6m.fsf@gnu.org> <87wph5fw0w.fsf@russet.org.uk> <838ttlwodt.fsf@gnu.org> <878ttl3342.fsf@Rainer.invalid> <8360opwjs2.fsf@gnu.org> <8760oosrn8.fsf@russet.org.uk> <83shrsvj3g.fsf@gnu.org> <87k2d4fk9m.fsf@russet.org.uk> <83h988uzpm.fsf@gnu.org> <87eg3ce2s1.fsf@russet.org.uk> <87pomw8ces.fsf@lifelogs.com> <86twc8ox6h.fsf@realize.ch> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1476957804 29795 195.159.176.226 (20 Oct 2016 10:03:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2016 10:03:24 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (windows-nt) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 20 12:03:17 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bxABg-00051s-HZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Oct 2016 12:03:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53556 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bxABi-0005wR-M4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Oct 2016 06:03:02 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36210) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bxAAc-0005ry-Pv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Oct 2016 06:01:59 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bxAAU-0005ul-IJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Oct 2016 06:01:54 -0400 Original-Received: from clientmail.realize.ch ([46.140.89.53]:1613) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bxAAU-0005tZ-5L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Oct 2016 06:01:46 -0400 Original-Received: from rintintin.hq.realize.ch.lan.rit (Unknown [192.168.0.105]) by clientmail.realize.ch with ESMTP ; Thu, 20 Oct 2016 12:01:33 +0200 Original-Received: from myngb (192.168.66.64) by rintintin.hq.realize.ch.lan.rit (192.168.0.105) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 15.0.516.32; Thu, 20 Oct 2016 12:01:20 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Wed, 19 Oct 2016 23:25:09 +0200") X-ClientProxiedBy: rintintin.hq.realize.ch.lan.rit (192.168.0.105) To rintintin.hq.realize.ch.lan.rit (192.168.0.105) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Windows NT kernel [generic] X-Received-From: 46.140.89.53 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:208535 Archived-At: Lars Ingebrigtsen writes: > Alain Schneble writes: > >> Do you really see a need for doing this? Either is foo-images some >> package-internal feature. Then nobody should care about it and no one >> should ever require it beside the old version of the package itself. > > "Should" is one of those words that should be avoided. :-) You are so right. I should learn to substitute it with better ones; I know I should improve my English skills. :) > People load bits and bobs of things in their .emacs files, and it is a > problem in practice, according to the Org people. > > And it seems like a trivial problem to fix. I just don't think it's worth to fix it on that level upfront. See also my thoughts here, second half: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2016-10/msg00603.html Alain