From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Krystian Samp <samp.krystian@gmail.com>,
Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
Cc: 72961@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#72961: Possible documentation improvement: Clarification for package installation
Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2024 15:03:42 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86r0a28dpd.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKsGKCjz53VqqifzzLjs9q6nacw9b_4fBX_+Z=DLudfLq2BCSA@mail.gmail.com> (message from Krystian Samp on Mon, 2 Sep 2024 12:41:11 +0200)
> From: Krystian Samp <samp.krystian@gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2024 12:41:11 +0200
>
> I was reading the section on "Libraries of Lisp Code for Emacs" (section 28.8) in the Emacs manual, and I
> encountered a passage that seems a bit unclear. The text suggests that when using package-install, Emacs
> might automatically add initialization code to the init.el file, which doesn’t seem to match my experience.
>
> Specifically, the manual states: "Installing a package using package-install takes care of placing the package’s
> Lisp files in a directory where Emacs will find it, and also writes the necessary initialization code into your init
> files [...]"
>
> From my understanding, package-install does not modify init.el directly, which is how I interpret the
> documentation above. Instead, Emacs calls package-initialize which makes the installed packages available,
> automatically.
>
> I want to check if this is a valid concern / interpretation that warrants a documentation change. If so, I'll be
> happy to create a patch.
Is package-quickstart.el considered "init file" or not?
And I add Philip to this discussion, as he knows the package.el code
better than I do.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-09-02 12:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-09-02 10:41 bug#72961: Possible documentation improvement: Clarification for package installation Krystian Samp
2024-09-02 12:03 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2024-09-02 18:49 ` Philip Kaludercic
2024-09-04 21:52 ` Krystian Samp
2024-09-05 6:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-09-05 7:44 ` Krystian Samp
2024-09-05 9:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-09-05 9:23 ` Krystian Samp
2024-09-05 6:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
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