From: Christian Kruse <cjk@defunct.ch>
To: "Stefan Reichör" <stefan@xsteve.at>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Future role of ELPA
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 09:25:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87oabhdpuh.fsf@jugulator.defunced.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87vb5paxlp.fsf_-_@xsteve.at> ("Stefan Reichör"'s message of "Tue, 16 Feb 2016 09:05:54 +0100")
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Hi,
I am an Emacs user as well, and I so much disagree with you.
Stefan Reichör <stefan@xsteve.at> writes:
> As I user I am not happy with that direction.
> Let me try to explain it.
> I use Emacs since about 20 years. I use it daily and it is my primary
> interface to computer related tasks. For sure I can adopt to what ever
> direction emacs goes.
17 year here, since ‘99. I use Emacs for nearly everything as well.
> I use a hand crafted .emacs and I am used to install emacs packes
> manually to a site-lisp folders.
Me, too, and I hated it. It was *SO* much work to keep track of
everything I installed this way; for bigger packages I even had to
change the load path to get it installed properly.
Nowadays I just hit „install“ - done.
> With GNU ELPA I have to install the package first and get rid of it if I
> don't like it.
That’s easier now as well. Just `rm -rf` the sub-directory in the elpa
directory and be done with it. Try to remove e.g. org-mode from the
Emacs distribution.
> My main concern with GNU ELPA is that I have to install a lot of extra
> packages manually using the package manager. When they are built-in they
> are just there.
That’s exactly what I like about ELPA. I decide what I’d like to have
installed, and not some maintainer. For example I would never install
tramp, this bugged piece of software caused me so much trouble (for
example, `/dev/null` gets overwritten everytime I use tramp and I have
to do a `mknod` everytime to re-create it).
Moving more things to ELPA means more control for me, and it also means
faster bugfixes for packages I use. I don’t have to wait for a new Emacs
release to get a bugfix for e.g. org-mode, but I can install a new
version as soon as it has been released just by hitting enter on the
install button.
I totally like the way of moving things to ELPA.
Best regards,
--
Christian Kruse
https://wwwtech.de/about
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-16 8:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-15 15:50 [ELPA] tramp-theme.el Michael Albinus
2016-02-15 15:55 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-02-15 17:55 ` Michael Albinus
2016-02-16 7:21 ` Stefan Reichör
2016-02-16 7:36 ` John Wiegley
2016-02-16 8:05 ` Future role of ELPA (was: [ELPA] tramp-theme.el) Stefan Reichör
2016-02-16 8:25 ` Christian Kruse [this message]
2016-02-16 8:46 ` Future role of ELPA Michael Albinus
2016-02-16 9:02 ` Christian Kruse
2016-02-16 9:15 ` Michael Albinus
2016-02-16 10:16 ` Christian Kruse
2016-02-16 9:18 ` Przemysław Wojnowski
2016-02-16 8:57 ` Oleh Krehel
2016-02-16 15:26 ` Future role of ELPA (was: [ELPA] tramp-theme.el) Drew Adams
2016-02-16 17:52 ` Future role of ELPA John Wiegley
2016-02-16 18:51 ` Stefan Reichör
2016-02-16 19:26 ` Michael Albinus
2016-02-16 19:45 ` John Wiegley
2016-02-17 15:59 ` Richard Stallman
2016-02-21 2:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-02-21 10:05 ` Philipp Stephani
2016-02-21 14:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-02-21 23:37 ` Richard Stallman
2016-02-22 18:00 ` Richard Stallman
2016-02-17 18:42 ` Phillip Lord
2016-02-16 7:53 ` [ELPA] tramp-theme.el Alexis
2016-02-16 7:55 ` Joost Kremers
2016-02-16 8:20 ` Stefan Reichör
2016-02-16 8:53 ` Joost Kremers
2016-02-16 17:57 ` John Wiegley
2016-02-16 18:41 ` Stefan Reichör
2016-02-16 19:48 ` John Wiegley
2016-02-16 8:14 ` Michael Albinus
2016-02-16 17:58 ` John Wiegley
2016-02-17 9:04 ` Michael Albinus
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