From: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord)
To: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: raman@google.com, monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Auto-installing packages?
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2018 17:16:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sh264w88.fsf@russet.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1g22Mz-0004PM-0D@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Mon, 17 Sep 2018 18:51:52 -0400")
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
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> > And, yet, the mantra is "ELPA is Emacs". It requires copyright
> > assignment (with all the intense pain that this entails), the files say
> > "part of Emacs" and so forth.
>
> > So, for the case of Emacs and ELPA installing over the network vs
> > pre-packaged is, I think, merely technical.
>
> That is a valid point, in the case of GNU ELPA.
>
> But would that facility be limited to GNU ELPA?
If we wanted to release a stripped-down Emacs, which auto-installed a
pre-configured set of packages from ELPA, then I assume that you would
insist that it would be, for reasons of copyright if nothing else.
> Or would it also be used with other package archives
> that are not part of Emacs?
Emacs already has the ability to do this, but it is up to the user to
choose to do this.
Phil
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-09-18 16:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-14 1:51 Auto-installing packages? Stefan Monnier
2018-09-14 7:09 ` Phil Sainty
2018-09-14 8:39 ` T.V Raman
2018-09-15 0:46 ` Richard Stallman
2018-09-17 11:50 ` Phillip Lord
2018-09-17 22:51 ` Richard Stallman
2018-09-18 16:16 ` Phillip Lord [this message]
2018-09-19 3:40 ` Richard Stallman
2018-09-20 16:58 ` Phillip Lord
2018-09-24 1:46 ` Richard Stallman
2018-09-14 14:11 ` Phillip Lord
2018-09-14 18:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-09-17 11:48 ` Phillip Lord
2018-09-17 13:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-09-18 16:12 ` Phillip Lord
2018-09-18 21:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-09-14 15:52 ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-09-15 0:50 ` Richard Stallman
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