From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Achim Gratz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Installing binaries with package.el Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2017 19:52:49 +0100 Organization: Linux Private Site Message-ID: <87inok3472.fsf@Rainer.invalid> References: <3fdcbe78-969e-f9e1-2a9d-a5f8494c35b3@mit.edu> <87o9ydlprf.fsf@Rainer.invalid> <26a71145-5c0b-faad-17f1-a34e741ed493@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1486580021 27000 195.159.176.226 (8 Feb 2017 18:53:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2017 18:53:41 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.91 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 08 19:53:37 2017 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 1cbXMx-0006Wy-T8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Feb 2017 19:53:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:32781 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cbXN3-0007g4-Jr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Feb 2017 13:53:37 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36955) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cbXMW-0007fz-37 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Feb 2017 13:53:05 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cbXMT-0002mJ-2G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Feb 2017 13:53:04 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=55975 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cbXMS-0002m1-Rl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Feb 2017 13:53:01 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cbXMJ-0004Uz-Mb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Feb 2017 19:52:51 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:dqja1WFQJEu9O75hPvnUTYdza0k= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 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:212147 Archived-At: Clément Pit-Claudel writes: >> I'd consider package.el installing anything outside ./emacs.d/elpa >> unwelcome behaviour and outside ~/.emacs.d even hostile. > > I'm not sure I understand what your suggestion is. Do you mean you'd > be happy ~/.emacs.d/elpa/bin/? I'm not sure I even have a suggestion other than "don't do that". I simply don't think that wrapper scripts and/or compiling binaries is appropriate for ELPA packages, it just opens one big can of worms that I don't really want to deal with in any way. Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ SD adaptation for Waldorf rackAttack V1.04R1: http://Synth.Stromeko.net/Downloads.html#WaldorfSDada