From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alexis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Sharing .emacs.d between different hosts: issues with shared elpa folder Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 00:18:45 +1100 Message-ID: <87lhkrnglm.fsf@gmail.com> References: <2015-01-23T10-29-32@devnull.Karl-Voit.at> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1422191958 10763 80.91.229.3 (25 Jan 2015 13:19:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 13:19:18 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 25 14:19:18 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 1YFN5u-0004cY-6Z for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 25 Jan 2015 14:19:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37817 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YFN5t-0002wE-8d for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 25 Jan 2015 08:19:13 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36645) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YFN5i-0002vu-BZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Jan 2015 08:19:03 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YFN5a-0001QR-4I for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Jan 2015 08:19:02 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-pa0-x230.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400e:c03::230]:64500) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YFN5Z-0001Q4-TZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Jan 2015 08:18:54 -0500 Original-Received: by mail-pa0-f48.google.com with SMTP id ey11so6605932pad.7 for ; Sun, 25 Jan 2015 05:18:52 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=references:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:date:message-id:mime-version :content-type; bh=IHR8d+ajwUZpa8YfD3bLIewobdAUKbkIhc0v37qbNZE=; b=Ax0eVco49wg9ELlKIR9uvClQmMmuX71ERGScLD50lk/1YEq8zGq33nwYhB2nYHFflD 5yOD0o3SLkMrIWG9sAouJ4SGACp0E7QzE0Z0dP9L27RSCxmQqghlFxEp7n35+D4Wkspp eAprchavpkZm9O83M7xjwOCndGrXCCUIGooJ45C57kcjIiHihc1P3Ug+eEEBFw98rTpU qogQeD+3pvy8ixxYPBgis42srq4KmMElI+fsnWI9GmxIG7WTaddlkklkz/hEyvDNPX6l cKT02sCwXj2sZTWp38fTFEtvFgyWDQ3zInMRrlfeew10egV9palXlD3T1niYFR15k6Q5 bR5A== X-Received: by 10.66.141.138 with SMTP id ro10mr26922129pab.67.1422191932461; Sun, 25 Jan 2015 05:18:52 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from localhost (CPE-120-147-144-248.gdiv2.lon.bigpond.net.au. [120.147.144.248]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id ej9sm7250576pdb.1.2015.01.25.05.18.49 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Sun, 25 Jan 2015 05:18:51 -0800 (PST) In-reply-to: <2015-01-23T10-29-32@devnull.Karl-Voit.at> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:400e:c03::230 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:102248 Archived-At: Karl Voit writes: > I read that sharing the elpa folder is not recommended and I guess > this results in issues like the one above. > > I don't want to manage different sets of packages per host. So: how > do I accomplish working sharing of packages/dot-emacs? In terms of package management, you could perhaps use Pallet: https://github.com/rdallasgray/pallet to create a Cask file which you sync between your various systems, and then do `pallet-install` and `pallet-update` as required. Alexis.