Re: ELPA

[Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>]

Stefan Monnier wrote:

>>> I didn't mean for you to use this literally. Obviously,
>>> you'll need to adapt it to your specific circumstance.
>>> The `package-activate-all` should take care of all the
>>> ~/.emacs.d/elpa/*
>>
>> Yes, that works!
>>
>> ... but I don't know what stuff there is in
>> ~/.emacs.d/elpa/* - the explicit method seems to offer
>> more control.
>
> I suggested it based on your request:
>
>     Also... can you do it without having to do this
>     [...]
>     In the Makefile? (Set the load-path again for every pack, I mean.)
>
> So, either you want to enumerate every pack in order "to
> offer more control", or you want to "do it without having to
> [...] set the load-path again for every pack".
>
> I don't think you can have your cake and eat it too, tho
> maybe it's just me being too pessimistic.

I think there should be a way to recursively add a directory
to the load path, so all the subdirs would be added as well,
but without doing anything else, after that one could compile,
require, load, etc, without restrictions.

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