From: torys.anderson@gmail.com (Tory S. Anderson)
To: Emacs Help List <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Yum-like emacs package manager?
Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2015 06:33:08 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8738684tjf.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
Recently I've read various articles complaining about the emacs package manager (packages.el, `list-packages') given the explosion in user contributions to places like MELPA. Sure enough, especially with emacs traditional async incapabilities, loading the package list and searching through it is very cumbersome.
It seems like a natural solution would be something like apt-get, yum, and YaST, or maybe even cpan or ctan. Clearly much of what those managers do is unnecessary; we aren't dealing with a full OS, as much as we sometimes pretend we are. But in particular they perform search and filtering in powerful and relatively fast ways that would be wonderful to have in emacs.
Does anyone know if there's something along these lines in development right now?
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2015-02-14 11:33 Tory S. Anderson [this message]
2015-02-14 15:36 ` Yum-like emacs package manager? wgreenhouse-sGOZH3hwPm2sTnJN9+BGXg
2015-02-14 18:29 ` Tory S. Anderson
2015-02-14 17:45 ` Robert Thorpe
2015-02-14 18:12 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-02-14 18:41 ` Rasmus
2015-02-14 18:42 ` Tory S. Anderson
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2015-02-17 17:33 ` Anssi Saari
2015-02-17 23:22 ` Alexis
2015-02-17 23:34 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-02-18 0:56 ` W. Greenhouse
[not found] ` <mailman.279.1424220996.31049.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-02-18 1:00 ` Joost Kremers
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