From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nicolas Richard Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: using use-package Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2015 13:16:32 +0200 Message-ID: <8737zqaxdb.fsf@members.fsf.org> References: <20150805055619.13567.17B26335@ahiker.mooo.com> <17131863-cbb8-4a85-8470-490fe9a0c0d4@googlegroups.com> <66dceb24-5fef-4316-8c8b-e9a3e62b0fb8@googlegroups.com> <3594e2c6-bd02-412f-98df-9dd0f145277a@googlegroups.com> <01b4d996-aad3-44ff-a580-7950b25b7dc8@googlegroups.com> <86h9o6kwqc.fsf@example.com> <87d1yub0oq.fsf@members.fsf.org> <87oaiejdaz.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1439291833 10966 80.91.229.3 (11 Aug 2015 11:17:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2015 11:17:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Alexis Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 11 13:17:03 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 1ZP7YE-0001Eo-Ko for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Aug 2015 13:17:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33862 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZP7YC-0005X8-O2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Aug 2015 07:17:00 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58086) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZP7Xx-0005Vb-HM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Aug 2015 07:16:50 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZP7Xq-0006PO-OV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Aug 2015 07:16:45 -0400 Original-Received: from mxin.ulb.ac.be ([164.15.128.112]:12026) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZP7Xq-0006PJ-Ii for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Aug 2015 07:16:38 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AkQFAIDYyVWkD4Xx/2dsb2JhbABdgkmBJmmqDgEGlUiGAQKCAwEBAQEBAYELhCQBAQMBeQULCAMhJQ8BBA08E4gZAwoIyTsNhUYBAQgCAR+GH4Uygk+COgeELAEElRCFBIJtBYMIg3uGSIoAhzMmhAA8M4JMAQEB Original-Received: from mathsrv4.ulb.ac.be (HELO localhost) ([164.15.133.241]) by smtp.ulb.ac.be with ESMTP; 11 Aug 2015 13:16:37 +0200 In-Reply-To: <87oaiejdaz.fsf@gmail.com> (Alexis's message of "Tue, 11 Aug 2015 21:05:08 +1000") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 164.15.128.112 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:106462 Archived-At: Alexis writes: > Nicolas Richard writes: > >> use-package makes it possible to use packages that are not ELPA >> packages. e.g. I start org-mode and many others from their source >> dir (a git checkout). > > Well, one doesn't need `use-package` for this specifically; Sorry for the bad phrasing, the point is that I do use use-package for this kind of thing, and that is one of the reason :load-path is useful to me (i.e. it doesn't help loading ELPA packages, but also helps loading libraries in a non-packaged form). > i don't > use `use-package`, but nevertheless have the `org-plus-contrib` > package installed from the orgmode.org ELPA. That's not from the git checkout though. -- Nico