From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin W. van Rooijen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: What exactly does "installing a package" mean? Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 01:31:29 +0100 Message-ID: <871tchcftq.fsf@attichacker.com> References: <87bnbll6b9.fsf@mbork.pl> <87d1w15nax.fsf@attichacker.com> <87611tkxij.fsf@mbork.pl> <87ziz5jhlj.fsf@debian.uxu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1445952688 25328 80.91.229.3 (27 Oct 2015 13:31:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 13:31:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Emanuel Berg Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 27 14:31:19 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Zr4LL-0007Eh-Iq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 27 Oct 2015 14:31:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59649 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zr4LI-0002PL-VN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 27 Oct 2015 09:31:12 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37376) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZqsAy-0001hS-8B for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Oct 2015 20:31:45 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZqsAu-00033T-Rr for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Oct 2015 20:31:44 -0400 Original-Received: from smtprelay0210.hostedemail.com ([216.40.44.210]:33081 helo=smtprelay.hostedemail.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZqsAu-00033N-Nz for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Oct 2015 20:31:40 -0400 Original-Received: from filter.hostedemail.com (unknown [216.40.38.60]) by smtprelay02.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA47712BA1C; Tue, 27 Oct 2015 00:31:39 +0000 (UTC) X-Session-Marker: 6B6576696E2E76616E2E726F6F696A656E4061747469636861636B65722E636F6D X-HE-Tag: tiger76_829dabea8400d X-Filterd-Recvd-Size: 2214 Original-Received: from localhost.localdomain (5ED241F1.cm-7-3b.dynamic.ziggo.nl [94.210.65.241]) (Authenticated sender: kevin.van.rooijen@attichacker.com) by omf04.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA; Tue, 27 Oct 2015 00:31:37 +0000 (UTC) User-agent: mu4e 0.9.15; emacs 24.5.1 In-reply-to: <87ziz5jhlj.fsf@debian.uxu> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 216.40.44.210 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 09:30:46 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:107835 Archived-At: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Emanuel Berg writes: > Marcin Borkowski writes: > >> On 2015-10-26, at 22:31, Kevin W. van Rooijen >> wrote: > > OT: Did you get that as a private mail? I don't see it > in the gmane.emacs.help threads... Strange, I CC'd the mailing list.. > But, to answer your question, no, there is nothing to > it but files and directories, just like everything > else on a Unix system. So alter it all exactly like > you please. Only, especially since it works, I don't > see any gain in doing so - on the contrary it'll be > error-prone and time-consuming. Only if you enjoy it > you should do it. I agree with this, in the end having too many packages doesn't really matter as long as it's managed by Emacs. But of course it's your choice :) - -- Kevin W. van Rooijen @attichacker PGP 4096R: A0A9 0D06 A754 6D4E EAD4 E6B8 A006 B0B1 CD62 28AB -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEcBAEBCgAGBQJWLsXhAAoJEHBsdeXUwRWB8wsIAKLKEDlEbUCX3eErRe+d5wtF pk++vLgi7T7nA5tUL2dKE/vVFTu22hYAWZgWeAO0wS8maz/ZAvPg1qufgVNdiASd 1f7h5VeL/36XhgVA4ItRdb3utJ1YAPiW19MjAYsBYPLakpnptPybPKoB6TPNwnbF VJ9Od+ROIhzw9yUlSStDedMjS38ldcb+XnVbPJ5u1YY/jBLoti/On7+JAdzZrtWn FrRPa4cqN8oNKw72KPhkk55GW+0jl8G6P36Hw1MOrYg6tJ/PhbBCjBr4Z1to2e+E J9RBTFmMF8/x8oQRLnzqLuy7mSLsS5jwkprzRgtImF7jlHoYt54AeKkBEGSC1pk= =LZts -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----