From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: An anonymous IRC user's opinion Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2024 06:14:29 +0200 Message-ID: <87msjgzh0a.fsf@dataswamp.org> References: <19ed5fa4ec0d3be9cfddc92ce2c78e47f2a3efb6.camel@octave.org> <87y133u4bf.fsf@web.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="27936"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:r4el5YjdFUnJhJbuErrcbaYBHHI= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 07 13:15:57 2024 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1sxliX-00071x-7I for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 07 Oct 2024 13:15:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1sxlhu-0005Fh-HX; Mon, 07 Oct 2024 07:15:18 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1sxf8t-0004Uy-4F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Oct 2024 00:14:43 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1sxf8r-0001mc-Cn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Oct 2024 00:14:42 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1sxf8n-0001KN-Al for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Oct 2024 06:14:37 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -15 X-Spam_score: -1.6 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, RCVD_IN_VALIDITY_CERTIFIED_BLOCKED=0.001, RCVD_IN_VALIDITY_RPBL_BLOCKED=0.001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 07 Oct 2024 07:15:15 -0400 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:324393 Archived-At: Richard Stallman wrote: >> From that I could imagine a similar approach to provide >> different installers that install a pre-configured Emacs >> for the specific task. > > I am trying to figure out concretely what that means, but > I can't be sure -- there are many possibilities. > > Who would select and install one "pre-configured Emacs"? > A user, for perself? An admin, for a user? I think he means for example if the user wants to do mail or IRC, say. Then we have an installer for Gnus (or rmail that you wrote) and for ERC. The installer probably facilitates setting the necessary settings for those programs to work. And maybe set the theme as well. I must say the whole thing, if I am interpreting it correctly, doesn't appeal to me that much but maybe it is actually a great idea, hard to tell. -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal